FSFL EL802, EL803 (3♂♂-49°05′S, 59°52′W, 394 m deep; May 2, 1978); EM286 (2♀♀-39°30′S, 54°47′W, 1,222 m deep; June 7, 1978); EM593 (1♂-37°28′S, 54°27′W, 810 m deep; June 19, 1978); EL911 (1♀-39°30′S, 55°32′W, 719 m deep; July 19, 1978). Total length from tip of rostrum to posterior margin of telson, 12.5-23 cm.
Description:
A deep-sea large species. Carapace cylindrical, being thickly covered with fine granules and short setae; a tuberculate granule at some distance behind antennal spine; a small supraorbital spine followed by a weak ridge with some spinules; antennal and hepatic grooves distinct, cervical groove being extended above as a branch of antennal groove; postcervical groove prominent and oblique, sellar groove meeting with postcervical groove on median line. Rostrum about as long as one-third the length of carapace, being usually armed with 2 pairs of spines; median groove of rostrum deep and extended back as a linear furrow to posterior margin of carapace. Abdomen with deep sculpture, with an anterior transverse and a median longitudinal grooves; each pleura of second to fifth segments tipped with a spinule; sixth segment with 3 spines on posterior margin, and sometimes with a spine on median part of upper surface. Telson with 1 or 2 spines on each lateral margin. First 3 pereiopods chelate, the first being very heavy, rather depressed and covered with many spinules.
Distribution:
Known from cotinental slope off Argentina and Chile, 135-1,222 m deep, and otherwise Zarenkov (1976) recorded from far west of South Georgia, 1,660 m deep.
Remarks:
Holthuis (1974) erected a new subfamily Thymopinae to accomodate his new genera Tymops and Thymopsis as well as Nephropsis Wood-Mason and Nephropides Manning. It is distinguished from the Nephropinae by having no scaphocerite, the absence of postrorbital spine, the abdominal sternites unarmed in both sexes, and having no podobranch on the second maxilliped.