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
Benthesicymus laciniatus
Rathbun, 1906
(
Fig. 3J–L
)
Benthesicymus laciniatus
Rathbun, 1906: 906
, fig. 59, pl. XIX, fig. 3. —
Hayashi 1983: 441
, fig. 62.—
Kikuchi & Nemoto 1991: 65
. —
Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 61
. — Wicksten 2004: 93 (extensive synonymy).
Gennadas pectinatus
Schmitt, 1921: 25
, fig. 12; pl. 11, fig. 1. —
Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 66
. —
Wicksten 2002: 128
.
Diagnosis.
Rostrum slightly ascending, with 1 or 2 dorsal teeth, sharp apex, continuing posteriorly as dorsal carina to cervical groove. Carapace with antennal, branchiostegal teeth; cervical groove, Y-shaped lateral groove running posteriorly. Eye without pigment, eyestalk with tubercle. Scaphocerite with rounded blade, exceeding lateral tooth. Second maxilliped broad, flattened. Pereopods 1–3 short, strong, chelate; pereopods 4, 5 long slender. Pleopods with exceptionally long endopods, exopods. Abdominal somites 1–4 rounded, fourth with comb-like structure of teeth spinules along posterior margin. Somites 5, 6 with dorsal carina small posterolateral tooth, carina of somite 5 ending in sharp tooth. Telson shorter than uropods, with 4 pairs lateral spines. Carapace length to
42 mm
.
Color in life
.
Orange. The color note is from a specimen taken off the Hawaiian Is.
Habitat and depth.
Lower continental slope and abyssal plains,
1471–4028 m
.
Range.
Cosmopolitan:
Madagascar
, Reunion,
Saya de Malha Bank
,
Japan
,
Hawaiian Is.
, off Santa
Catalina I.
, California; off
Baja California
,
Mexico
; Azores,
Canary Is.
Type
locality off Kaui, Hawaiian Is
.