Hyperbenthic, at great depths (3480m)
Female: unknown
Male: Rostrum in the form of a well developed blunt plate with small chitinous semicircular ridge on the left distal edge. Cephalothorax 3.7 times longer than the abdomen. 4th and 5th thoracic segments incompletely fused (line of fusion visible from the sides). Caudal rami with 4 terminal setae, 1 short ventral seta and a small dorsal sensilla.
A1 nearly as long as the body with 2 brush-like aesthetascs in proximal part of the 2nd and 5th segments. Right A1 23-segmented; left A1 22-segmented.
Coxa and basis of A2 with 1 seta each. Exopodite 7-segmented and almost 2 times longer than the endopodite.
Md gnathobase with 5 spine-like teeth, without articulated seta; endopodite 2-segmented.
Precoxal endite of Mx1 with 7 terminal spines
Proximal precoxal endite of Mx2 with 5 setae, distal praecoxal endite with 3 setae
Syncoxa of Mxp with 1 sclerotized seta on the proximal praecoxal lobe. Coxal lobe with 2 setae (1 long and 1 small and short); basis with 1 medial seta, 1 small sensilla near its base, and 2 setae distall ; endopodite 5-segmented.
Basipodite of P1 with medial seta strongly curved; the lateral lobe of endopodite without denticles.
P5 uniramous, strongly asymmetrical, 5-segmeted on both sides. The left leg is much longer than the abdomen, the 2nd segment (basis) is the longest, with a row of spinules along the medial margin. Segment 5 (exopodal segment 3) with a thin and terminal spine and a row of spinules subdistally.
Kirnesius groenlandicus is een eenoogkreeftjessoort uit de familie van de Phaennidae.[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2005 door Markhaseva & Semenova.
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