A New Species of the Genus Hypererythrops (Crustacea, Mysida, Mysidae) from the Sulu Sea

The genus Hypererythrops was instituted by Holt and Tattersall (1905) for H. serriventer collected from the offing of the western coast of Ireland. Thereafter, seven species, H. spinifera (Hansen, 1910) from Misool Is., Indonesia, H. caribbaea Tattersall, 1937, from the northwestern Caribbean Sea, H. zimmeri Ii, 1937, from Japan, H. richardi B˘ acescu, 1941, from the Mediterranean, H. elegantula Nouvel, 1974, from Madagascar, H. semispinosa Wang, 1998, from the northern South China Sea, and H. varidisaeta Fukuoka and Murano, 2002, from the Andaman Sea, have been referred to this genus. The present specimens were collected from the Sulu Sea during the scientific cruise (KH-72-1) by R/V Hakuho Maru, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo. All the specimens examined are lodged in the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT).