Paravaunthompsonia gen. nov.

Diagnosis. Carapace with three small teeth dorsomedially on frontal lobe; ocular lobe wider than long, with lenses. Four free thoracic segments visible; pleonite 6 produced between the uropods and longer than their peduncles. Exopods on maxilliped 3 and pereiopods 1 to 4 in male. Maxilliped 3 with distal prolongations on basis and merus.

Type species: Paravaunthompsonia meteorae gen. nov. sp. nov.

Etymology: The new genus is named Paravaunthompsonia because of its resemblance, at first glance, to the genus Vaunthompsonia .

Remarks. The new genus resembles in terms of the habitus at first glance members of the genus Vaunthompsonia, however, it has eye lenses as have the bodotriid genera Sympodomma Stebbing, 1912 and Pseudosympodomma Kurian, 1954, but not Vaunthompsonia Bate, 1958 . It differs from these in having no visible first pereionite. Paravaunthompsonia, like Sympodomma, has exopods in males at the first three pereiopods, and is, like Pseudosympodomma, not laterally compressed.