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Comprehensive Description

provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Bruzelia australis Stebbing, 1910: 590–592, pl. 50

DIAGNOSIS.—Gnathopods 1–2 with 2 palmar spines; coxa 3 acute anteroventrally; coxa 4 as long as coxa 3, adz-shaped, posteroventral margin straight; article 2 of pereopods 3–5 ovatorectangular and with 6+ enlarged posterior serrations; epimeron 2 with small posteroventral tooth; epimeron 3 with medium sharp posteroventral tooth; pereonites 1–7 and pleonites 1–2 with dorsal tooth; pleonites 1–2 with lateral carina.

Article 1 of antenna 1 with small cusp.

Off eastern Australia, 54–59 fms.
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bibliographic citation
Barnard, J. L. 1972. "A review of the family Synopiidae (=Tironidae), mainly distributed in the deep sea (Crustacea: Amphipoda)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-94. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.124