Some Amphipoda, Isopoda and Tanaidacea from Cook Strait
S.O. Hyperiidea — Family Phronimidae
S.O. Hyperiidea
Family Phronimidae
Phronima sedentaria (Forsk.), 1775.
Phronima sedentaria Hurley, 1955: 166–170, figs. 188–218.
Material Examined: Station COS (VUZ. 22), 1 female, 28 mm, with "salphouse". Station BOQ (VUZ. 18), 1 female, 20 mm.
page 8Cirolana quadripustulata n.sp. Male.
Fig. 25.—Adult male, side view. Fig. 26.—Adult male, dorsal view. Fig. 27.—Ventral surface of head showing frontal lamina. Fig. 28.—Antenna 1. Fig. 29.—Maxilla 1 Fig. 30.—Maxilla? 2. Fig. 31.—Maxilliped. Fig. 32.—Mandible. Fig. 33.—Peraeopod 1. Fig. 34.—Peraeopod 2. Fig. 35.—Peraeopod 2, dactylos. Fig. 36.—Peraeopod 7. Fig. 37.—Male stylet. Fig. 38.—Uropod.
Distribution: Cosmopolitan (cf. Hurley, 1955).
Discussion: This is the common species of Phronima found around New Zealand. Almost all of the references in the New Zealand literature to this species are under the name Phronima novae-zealandiae.