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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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a real pleasure to name this new species for Mr. John Stellmack,a well-known Pennsylvania speleologist, who first called my attentionto the type locality as a potential amphipod cave and who latermaterially assisted in collecting this unique animal. gracilipes Subgroup Diagnosis.—Posterior angle of 1st gnathopodal propod with 4to 6 large, unequal spines on outside. Bases of pereopods 5-7 sub-triangular, broader proximaUy than distally; distoposterior lobespoorly developed. Telson longer than broad, gently tapering distally;apical margin entire; armed with at least 4 sets of lateral spines andup to 13 apical spines. Stygonectes gracilipes, new species Figure 7 Synpleonia pizzinii Shoemaker—Hubricht, 1943, p. 709 (in part).—Holsinger,1963, p. 29 (in part); 1964, p. 62 (in part). Material examined VIRGINIA.—Warren Co.: Skyline Caverns, male holotype, female allotype, 6male and 14 female paratypes, J. Fowler, Jan. 12, 1941 (USNM). Additional SUBTERRANEAN AlVIPHIPOD STYGONECTES 37
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Figure 7.—Stygonedes gracilipes, new species. Female (12.50 mm), Skyline Caverns, Va.:a,h, antennae 1,2; c, coxal plate of pereopod 3; d-g, pereopods 4,5,6,7; h, abdominalside plates; i~k, uropods 1,2,3; /, telson; m,n, gnathopods 1,2. Male (10.50 mm), samelocality: o, left mandible. 38 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 25 9 paratypes from Skyline Caverns as follows: J. Fowler, Dec. 22, 1940 and Feb. 9,1941 (USNM); J. P. E. Morrison, Jan. 19, 1941 (USNM); L. Hubricht, Aug. 14,1939 and June 4, 1952 (LH); T. C. Barr, Jr., Aug. 21, 1958 (LH). Additionalmaterial: west Virginia.—Jefiferson Co.: Molers Cave, J. R. Holsinger, July 7,1962 (JRH). MARYLAND.—Washington Co.: Dam Number 4 Cave, D. Franz,Nov. 23, 1963 and Mar. 4, 1965 (JRH). Pennsylvania.—Franklin Co.: NeedyCave, R. Bray, Feb. 22, 1940 (USNM). Diagnosis.—Distinguished from other species of the emarginatusgroup by more elongate appendages, more spines on outside of pos-terior angle of 1st gnathopodal propod, by the reduced and

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