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
Heptacarpus kincaidi
(Rathbun
,
1902)
(
Fig. 20G
)
Spirontocaris kincaidi
Rathbun, 1902a: 899
;
1904: 95
, fig. 43. —
Schmitt 1921: 63
, fig. 40.
Heptacarpus kincaidi
. —
Holthuis 1947: 12
. —
Kozloff 1974: 167
. —
Word & Charwat 1976: 119
. —
Butler 1980: 218
. —
Wicksten 1990b: 594
. —
Jensen 1995: 47
, fig. 78. —
Chace 1997: 44
.
Diagnosis.
Rostrum moderately deep, exceeding antennular peduncle, with 5 or 6 dorsal, 5 or 6 ventral teeth; apex usually bifid. Second, third segments of antennular peduncle with 1 spine each, stylocerite reaching end of second segment. Third maxilliped with epipod. No epipods on pereopods. Pereopods 3–5 slender, with spinose dactyls; merus of pereopod 3 with 2–4 spines, pereopod 4, with 2 or 3 spines, pereopod 5, with 2 or 3 spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–4 rounded, 5 with sharp ventral point. Dorsal posterior margin of somite 3 forming cap-like lobe. Telson with 4 pairs dorsolateral spines. Female total length
35 mm
, male not reported.
Color in life.
Mostly transparent, with red spots and bands on body, and appendages (
Butler 1980
). Rostrum with yellowish stripe, body marked with red and streaked with white and gray-green patches (
Jensen 1995
).
Habitat and depth.
Subtidal rocky areas, in association with sea anemones,
Cribrinopsis fernaldi
Siebert & Spaulding 1976
; and
Urticina crassicornis
(O.F. Müller, 1776) (
Jensen 1995
)
,
10–
183 m
.
Range.
Discovery Passage, east coast of
Vancouver I.
, British Columbia to
San Pedro
, California.
Type
locality Santa Cruz, California
.