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
Crangon franciscorum
Stimpson, 1856
(
Fig. 27 H, I
)
Crangon franciscorum
Stimpson, 1856: 97
. —
Rathbun 1904: 120
, fig. 61. —
Kozloff 1974: 164
. —
Chace & Abbott 1980: 574
. —
Jensen 1995: 40
, fig. 57. —
Kuris
et al
. 2007: 636
, pl.
316 F.
Crago franciscorum
. —
Schmitt 1921: 92
, fig. 62. —
Johnson & Snook 1927: 313
, fig. 267. —
MacGinitie & MacGinitie 1968: 275
.
Crangon
(
Neocrangon
)
franciscorum
. — Zarenkov 1963: 1764.
Crangon franciscorum franciscorum
. —
Butler 1980: 101
.
Diagnosis.
Exoskeleton smooth, thin. Rostrum short, not reaching cornea of eye, apex rounded. Carapace with one dorsal median tooth, also hepatic, branchiostegal, moderate pterygostomian teeth. Eye small, pigmented. Stylocerite exceeding first segment of antennular peduncle. First segment of antennular peduncle with distal spine. Scaphocerite with lateral tooth exceeding blade. Third maxilliped setose, with exopod. Pereopod 1 with inner spine on merus; hand of subchela elongate, dactyl closing almost longitudinally against inner tooth. Pereopod 2 slender, chelate. Pereopod 3 slender, with simple dactyl. Pereopods 4, 5 setose, more robust than third, with simple dactyls. Abdominal pleura 1–4 with blunt to rounded pleura, somite 5 with posterolateral tooth, somite 6 with moderate posteroventral tooth. Abdominal somite 6 slender, with ventral groove. Telson narrow, with 2 pairs lateral spines, acute apex, shorter than uropods.
Male
total length
49 mm
, female
68 mm
.
Color in life.
Mottled gray.
Habitat and depth.
Sand, mud, bays, estuaries, intertidal zone to
91 m
.
Range.
Resurrection Bay
,
Alaska
to San Diego,
California
.
Type
locality
San Francisco Bay
,
California
.
Remarks.
Butler (1980)
treated
C
.
franciscorum
as two separate subspecies,
C
.
franciscorum franciscorum
and
C
.
franciscorum angustimana
Rathbun, 1902
. The latter, having a more slender subchela than the former (6–8 times as long as wide versus 4–5.5 times as long as wide), was reported from Kachemak Bay,
Alaska
to Tillamook Rock,
Oregon
. It seemed to inhabit deeper, cooler, more saline water than the typical form. There has been no subsequent study to determine if these two purported subspecies are valid.