Abstract
Benthoxynus spiculifer n. gen., n. sp., associated with Vestimentifera, is distinguished from Dirivultus and Ceuthoecetes, the other two genera of the Dirivultidae, as follows: in the female by the 18-segmented first antenna with an aesthete on segment 17, by 3 terminal setae on the second antenna, and by the absence of an inner seta on the first segment of the endopod of leg 3; in the male by the 11-segmented first antenna with an aesthete on segment 10 and a large process with serrate tip on segment 6, and leg 5 reduced to 2 setae, without a free segment.
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