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 Scleroplax granulata Rathbun, 1893 ( Fig. 57B–D , Pl. 15A) Scleroplax granulata Rathbun, 1893: 251 ; 1904: 188 , pl. 7, fig. 5; 1917: 171, pl. 37, figs. 1–3, text fig. 109. — Weymouth 1910: 59 , text fig. 85. — Schmitt 1921: 267 , pl. 44, figs. 1–3. — Johnson & Snook 1921: 394. — Schmitt et al . 1973: 96 . — Garth & Abbott 1980: 618 , fig. 25.41. — Hart 1982: 228 , fig. 94. — Ricketts et al . 1985: 384 , fig. 300. — Jensen 1995: 30 , fig. 40. — Campos-Gonzalez 2006: 33, fig. 1 A–C; 2007: 644, pl. 322 D2. Diagnosis. Carapace subpentagonal, hard, granulate anteriorly near margins; punctate elsewhere; front narrow, produced, slightly convex. Orbits nearly circular, eyestalk short, thick. Antennules almost transverse. Chela of male swollen, heavy; those of female not as large. Dactyl curved, fixed finger with large tooth, fingers gaping. Pereopods 2–5 slender, granulate. Pereopod 4 longest, its segments narrow, flattened; dactyls slender, almost straight, nearly as long as dactyls. Male abdomen narrow, tapering gradually to broad terminal segment, female abdomen fringed with setae. Male carapace length about 3 mm , female to 6 mm . Color in life. Grayish white, brownish, yellowish mottled with red-brown ( Hart 1982 ). Habitat and depth. Bays and harbors, symbiotic with echiuroid worm Urechis caupo , ghost shrimps Neotrypaea californiensis , N . gigas , Upogebia pugettensis , and U . macginitieorum ; intertidal zone to 13 m . Range. Roller Bay , Vancouver I. to El Coyote Estuary , Abreojos Point, Baja California ; off Mazatlán, Sinaloa , Mexico . Type locality Ensenada , Baja California .