Pandalus heterocarpus

P. heterocarpus (Costa, 1871)

Description. Rostrum long, about two times as long as scaphopcerite, slender and slightly curved upward, dorsal margin with 15–23 teeth of which the proximal 4–6 are movable and situated behind the orbit, ventral margin bears 16–23 teeth; posterior part of the 3rd abdominal somite is slightly concave; eye with maximum diameter about l/5 of carapace length, ocellus longitudinally oval, constricted at juncture with cornea; 3rd maxilliped with well developed strap-like epipod, penultimate segment sub-equal to terminal segment; 2nd pair of pereiopod distinctly unequal, left one much longer than the right one, overreaching scaphocerite with chela, carpus and distal half of merus, with 107–215 carpal segments, 80–111 meral segments and about 25 ischial segments (Holthuis 1980).

Distribution. Cyprus, Israel, Syria and Turkey; at depths of 10–850 m (Holthuis 1980).