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Harpiniopsis fulgens J. L. Barnard

Harpiniopsis fulgens J. L. Barnard, 1960b, p. 332, pls. 67–68; 1966a, p. 85; 1967a, p. 134.

MATERIAL.—Stations 2 (3), 8 (1), 25 (1), 30 (2), 31 (3), 37 (9), 46 (1).

This species differs from H. similis Stephensen (1925), a closely similar species in the Atlantic Ocean, in the presence of spines on the rami of uropods 1–2, in the subtruncate ventral margin of article 2 on pereopod 5, and the much longer article 6 of pereopod 4.

DISTRIBUTION.—Oregon to Baja California, 128–2,667 m.
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Barnard, J. L. 1971. "Gammaridean Amphipoda from a deep-sea transect off Oregon." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-86. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.61