A new deep-sea species of the genus Systellaspis (Decapoda, Caridea, Oplophoridae) in the western Pacific
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Deep Sea
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A new species ofSystellaspisSpence Bate, 1888,Systellaspis liuisp. nov., was discovered in the deep waters of the western Pacific. It is closely allied toS. debilis(A. Milne-Edwards, 1881), but it differs morphologically in the blade of the scaphocerite being equipped with a medial dorsal groove, the spines on pereiopods 1 to 5, the dorsal margin of the third abdominal somite with a carina, the posterior margin of the fifth abdominal somite, and the dorsal margin of the telson armed with at least two rows of spines on each side. A key to the species ofSystellaspisis provided.