Byblis liena sp. nov.

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Holotype: AM P.27290, female, length unknown. Australia, Queensland, E of Lady Elliot Island, 24°00'S 153°06'30"E, 475–530 m, Australian Museum party, 17 Nov 1977, fine grey ooze, sand with pteropod shells (HMAS Kimbla stn 1).

Description of holotype. Head. Head 1.4 times as long as deep; rostrum one-fifth length of head, rounded; anteroventral margin with antennal lobe, oblique; eyes weakly pigmented, without cuticular lenses. Antenna 1 peduncular article 2 2.3 times as long as article 1; article 3 about one-third length of article 2; flagellum of 20 articles; almost as long as antenna 2.

Pereon. Coxae 1–3 rounded, coxa 1 with setose margin. Pereopods 3, 4 dactylus as long as propodus. Pereopod 5 basis flexor margin with prominent proximal lobe; extensor margin without plumose setae. Pereopod 6 basis subcircular, extensor margin with 11 plumose setae. Pereopod 7 basis posterodistal margin truncate-rounded, reaching almost to distal end of carpus, free anterior margin setose near junction with ischium; merus longer than wide, widest distally; carpus 1.5 times as long as wide, as long as ischium-merus together; propodus linear, 3 times as long as wide.

Pleon. Epimeron 3 posteroventral margin broadly rounded. Uropod 1 outer ramus with 4 short robust setae; inner ramus shorter, with 3 short robust setae. Uropod 2 inner ramus rami subequal; each ramus upper margin with 1 robust seta. Uropod 3 rami equal, inner ramus with 2 robust setae. Telson 1.3 times as long as wide, subtriangular, cleft about one-third of length, with pair of long dorsal robust setae; distal margin narrow, bilobed.

Distribution. Australia, southeastern Qld, slope, 475–530 m (known only from type locality).

Remarks. Byblis liena sp. nov. lack cuticular lenses and the eye is weakly pigmented. The species shares with B. tinamba Poore & Lowry, 1985 in Australia antennae of similar lengths but differs, inter alia, in the shape of the basis of pereopod 7, a more triangular telson and a much longer uropod 3. The triangular telson is unusual but something similar is seen in B. laterocostatus Ren, 2006 from China.