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
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Spirontocaris lamellicornis
(Dana, 1852)
(
Fig. 23B
)
Hippolyte lamellicornis
Dana, 1852: 24
; 1852b: 576, pl. 1, fig. 6.
Spirontocaris lamellicornis
. —
Holmes 1900: 208
. —
Rathbun 1904: 62
. —
Schmitt 1921: 53
, fig. 29. —
Holthuis 1947: 8
. —
Zarenkov 1960: 346
. —
Kozloff 1974: 166
. —
Standing 1981: 780
. — Wicksten 1980: 134; 1990b: 590. —
Word 1983: 58
. —
Jensen 1995: 51
, fig. 91.—
Chace 1997: 56
.
Diagnosis.
Rostrum deep, extending beyond antennular peduncle, with midrib extending as strong tooth, 9–23 dorsal, 1–3 ventral teeth including 4 or 5 large teeth on dorsal surface of carapace. Each segment of antennular peduncle with distal spine, stylocerite exceeding length of peduncle. Carapace with 2 supraorbital teeth. Pereopods 1–3 with epipods. Pereopods 3–5 with simple, curved dactyls. Merus of pereopod 3, with 5–7 spines; pereopod 4, with 4 spines; pereopod 5, with 1–2 spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–5 usually with sharp points, but becoming rounded in animals larger than
10 mm
in carapace length. Telson with 4 pairs dorsolateral spines, acute apex.
Male
total length to
42 mm
, female to
63 mm
.
Color in life.
Dark brown, pereopods dark red to colorless, tail fan banded; milkish overlaid with fine red mottling interspersed with yellow, brown to black spots; milkish with sixth abdominal somite red to purplish (
Butler 1980
).
Habitat and depth.
Sand
or mud bottoms,
3–192 m
.
Most
specimens from
California
were taken by trawling at
50–70 m
.
Range.
Commander Is.
and Bering Sea to
Santa Monica Bay
,
California
. Rarely collected in southern
California
.