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
.