Paramunida tenera Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2010
Paramunida tenera Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2010: 47, figs. 11, 15F.
Paramunida setigera Macpherson 1993: 464 (in part, specimens from New Caledonia); 2004: 289 (Fiji, 210–527 m) (not P. setigera Baba, 1988).
Holotype, male, MNHN-Ga7496.
New Caledonia. 20°33' S, 164°58' E, 386–430 m.
From the Latin, tener, delicate, in reference to the thin and long walking legs.
Rostrum triangular, smaller or at most equal to supraocular spines, with thin dorsal carina. Margin between rostral and supraocular spines straight. Spinules on gastric and hepatic regions usually forming groups arising from scale-like striae. Epigastric region without median row of spinules behind rostral spine. Mesogastric region without well developed spines. Cardiac region with a median row of 3 or 4 well developed spines. Thoracic sternite 4 with few striae, with few lateral striae on sternites 5–6. Lateral margin of antennular peduncle segment 1 with distal slender portion about half as long as proximal inflated portion. Anterior prolongation of antennal peduncle segment 1 spiniform; segment 2, 1.5–2.0 times longer than broad, distomesial spine mucronated, distomesial spine far falling short of end of anterior prolongation of segment 1, overreaching end of antennal segment 4, distolateral spine reaching midlength but not end of segment 3. Antennal segment 3, 2.0–3.0 times as long as broad. Base of pereopod 1 carpus without bundle of setae, pereopod 2 propodus about 13–15 times as long as high. Propodus of walking legs between 1.1–1.4 times longer than dactylus.
Males 7.4–12.2 mm, females, 5.7–10.5 mm, ovigerous females from 7.5 mm.
Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, between 160 and 600 m.