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
Neotrypaea gigas
(Dana, 1852)
(
Fig. 31H
)
Callianassa gigas
Dana, 1852: 19
. —
Holmes 1900: 162
. —
Rathbun 1904: 154
. —
Schmitt 1921: 119
, fig. 80. —
Haig & Abbott 1980: 579
. —
Hart 1982: 56
, fig. 14. — Sakai 2005: 57.
Callianassa longimana
Stimpson, 1857a: 86
. —
Rathbun 1904: 154
. —
Schmitt 1921: 117
, fig. 79. —
Johnson & Snook 1927: 329
, fig. 276. —
Wicksten 1980c: 360
.
Neotrypaea gigas
. —
Manning & Felder 1991: 771
. —
Kuris
et al
. 2007: 648
, pl. 326 H. —
Campos-Gonzalez
et al
. 2009: 1249
, fig.
2 g
, h; fig. 3 b, fig. 4 b–d. —
Pernet
et al
. 2010: 323
, fig. 2.
Diagnosis.
Rostrum usually bluntly rounded, rarely acute. Eyestalk with acute, divergent apices, pigmented area behind middle of stalk. Carapace smooth, with cervical, lateral grooves. Third maxillipeds operculiform. First pereopods chelate, unequal, sexually dimorphic.
Male
major cheliped almost as long as rest of body, merus with large lobe near base, dorsal, ventral margins of carpus, palm relatively straight, chela elongate, usually without gape between propodus, dactyl when closed. Large cheliped of female, immature male with hand longer than carpus. Small cheliped in both sexes elongate, carpus, hand subequal. Pereopod 2 chelate, palm wide. Pereopods 3–5 flattened, modified for digging, with simple dactyls.
Male
with vestigial pleopod 1, none on second abdominal somite; pleopods 3–5 well developed. Female with uniramous first pleopods, biramous second pleopods. Telson subrectangular, with pair dorsal ribs. Uropods as long as or longer than telson, exopod with dorsal rib.
Male
total length
150 mm
, female
106 mm
.
Color in life.
Mostly ivory to cream, abdomen flesh-colored dorsally.
Hart (1982)
gave a detailed description of the color.
Habitat and depth.
Mud or sandy mud, intertidal zone to
50 m
.
Range.
Digby I.
, British Columbia to
San Quentin Bay
,
Baja California
,
Mexico
.
Type
locality Puget Sound
.