Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005 Author Martin, Joel W. Author Haney, Todd A. text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2005 2005-12-31 145 4 445 522 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00178.x journal article 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00178.x 0024-4082 5434828 FAMILY LITHODIDAE SAMOUELLE, 1819 Remarks : Chevaldonné & Olu (1996) , in their review of anomurans from vents and seeps and citing Suess et al. (1985) and Kulm et al. (1986) , noted that the first record of any lithodid from such habitats was an illustration of what was clearly a lithodid in a sketch of the cold-seep community along the lower Oregonian Subduction Zone ( Suess et al. , 1985 : fig. 1; see Kulm et al ., 1986 , for map). From this same area but at slightly shallower depths, Carey et al. (1988) later reported Lopholithodes foraminatus , but it is not known if the earlier observations were of this same species. Tunnicliffe & Jensen (1987) noted that the earlier illustration might have been based on a species of Paralomis found by them at vents in the Juan de Fuca Ridge system (see below). Chevaldonné & Olu (1996) listed ‘two species and six occurrences not yet clearly assigned to species’. The situation has not changed appreciably since then (see below), and the review by Chevaldonné & Olu (1996) remains a well-written and succinct introduction to the literature on vent- and seep-associated lithodids. According to those authors, cold-seep lithodids are known from 250 to 2037 m depths, with one personal observation (M. Sibuet) of a depth of 3800 m in the Nankai Trough of the Japan subduction zone, whereas hydrothermal vent-associated lithodids are known from 350–2000 m . Many reports exist of unidentified lithodids at vent or seep sites (in some cases, such as the paper by Sassen et al. , 1993 , the species was later identified). Interestingly, despite their wide depth and geographical range, lithodids have not been reported from any of the EPR, Galapagos Rift (with the possible exception of a report by Guinot & Macpherson, 1987 ) or MAR systems ( Chevaldonné & Olu, 1996 ). Species belonging to this large and widespread family are assumed to be vagrants as opposed to vent- or seep-endemics, even though some are known only from such sites (see below and also Chevaldonné & Olu (1996) . Macpherson (1988) provided an in-depth revision and review of all known Atlantic species of this family; see Macpherson (2001) for a brief overview of the family in the Indo-Pacific.