A new species of Jerbarnia is described in 2 meters of depth from Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. It is the first species from depths shallower than 13 m. The species differs from all but J. aquilopacifica (Japan) in the lack of major teeth on pleonites 1-3 and from the latter species in the normal 2 teeth on each of urosomites 1-2.