Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371
Author
Wicksten, Mary K.
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-07-04
3371
1
307
journal article
11755334
Pinnixa franciscana
Rathbun, 1917
(
Fig. 57K, L
)
Pinnixa franciscana
Rathbun, 1917: 161
, pl. 35, figs. 1–4, text fig. 100. —
Schmitt 1921: 263
, pl. 42, figs. 1–4. —
Schmitt
et al
. 1973: 110
. —
Garth & Abbott 1980: 671
, fig. 25.38. —
Ricketts
et al
. 1985: 307
, fig. 238. —
Zmarzly 1992: 687
, fig. 7. — Campos- Gonzalez 2007: 646, pl. 325 A3.
Diagnosis
.
Carapace about twice as wide as long, pitted, with blunt, straight cardiac ridge; granulate ridge running from orbit to branchial region. Palm of chela densely granulate, with ridge just above lower edge continued to end of fixed finger, finger fringed with setae, line of granules through middle. Fingers wide, slightly gaping, apices crossing, dactyl with large triangular tooth, fixed finger also with tooth. Dactyls of pereopods 2–5 slender. Pereopod 2 reaching middle of dactyl of pereopod 3. Pereopod 4 much larger than others, with dorsal margin of merus, carpus, propodus serrate; ventral margin of merus also serrate. Pereopod 5 setose, reaching middle of carpus of pereopod 4. Female carapace length 5.7 mm.
FIGURE 57.
Family
Pinnotheridae
. A,
Opisthopus transversus
Rathbun, 1893
; B–D,
Scleroplax granulata
Rathbun, 1893
; B, dorsal view; C, right cheliped of female; D, right cheliped of mature male. E,
Pinnixa barnharti
Rathbun, 1918
. F, G
Pinnixa faba
(Dana, 1851)
; F, male; G, female. H–J,
Pinnixa forficulimanus
Zmarzly, 1992
; H, male; I, female; J, cheliped. K, L,
Pinnixa franciscana
Rathbun, 1918
; K, female; L, male. Scales: B, H, I = 2 mm; C, G, K, L = 5 mm; A, F = 7 mm. A from
Schmitt 1921
, B–D from
Hart 1982
, E-L from
Zmarzly 1992
.
Color in life.
Dirty brown to golden brown. The color notes are from crabs from Princeton Harbor,
San Mateo County
,
California
.
Habitat and depth.
Sandy mud, symbiotic with echiurans, polychaetes, callianassid shrimp; intertidal zone to
47 m
.
Range.
San Francisco Bay
,
California
to
Turtle Bay
,
Baja California
.
Type
locality east of
Point San Quentin
,
San Francisco Bay
(
Albatross
sta. D5709)
.