Species sculptilis
Parapenaeopsis sculptilis
- Petasma with a pair of distolateral projections directed laterally
or distolaterally, short and spout like
- Post rostral carina reaching almost to posterior border of carapace
- Antennular flagella 0.4-0.6 length of carapace, movable lateral spines
absent on telson
- In males, petasma with long, rabbit ear-shaped distomedian projections,
deeply concave ventrally
- Distolateral projections short, directed anterolaterally
- Proximolateral lobes very large, and curved dorsally
- The thelycum with anterior plate distally rounded and broadly articulating
with posterior plate, the latter with a median tubercle bearing a tuft
of long setae