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
Petalidium suspiriosum
Burkenroad, 1937
(
Fig. 5 N–S
)
Petalidium suspiriosum
Burkenroad, 1937: 325
, figs. 8–12. — Ebeling
et al.
1969:12. —
Walters 1976: 824
. —
Word & Charwat 1976: 27
. —
Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 76
. —
Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 110
; 1996: 75, fig. 47. —
Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 193
. —
Wicksten 2002: 131
.
Diagnosis.
Rostrum short, with 1 or 2 terminal teeth, rising abruptly from plane of carapace. Carapace with hepatic spine, points at antennal, branchiostegal, pterygostomian angles; strong carina running posteriorly from eyestalk toward posterior margin; cervical, gastro-cardiac grooves present. Eye pigmented. First segment of antennular peduncle concave, male with hooked antennular flagellum. Scaphocerite with blade exceeding blunt spine. Antennal flagellum long. Second maxilliped with strong, dense, dark setae along margin of last two segments. Third maxilliped and pereopods with very long setae. Abdominal somite 6 ending in terminal point, another point on ventrolateral margin. Telson with pair lateral points near acute apex. Outer uropod without setae on outer margin. Total length
38 mm
.
Color in life.
Red to purplish red; black pigment fleck present in dorsal view on ocular segment between eye.
Habitat and depth.
Pelagic,
150–1750 m
,
maximum population density off
Oregon
at
600–1000 m
.
Walters (1976)
reported that off the Hawaiian Is. this species was non-migratory and usually lived below
800 m
.
Range.
Hawaiian Is., northwestern Pacific Ocean, Oregon to Clarion
I
.,
Mexico
.
Type
locality north of
Clarion
I.: 20
˚
36' N, 115
˚
07' W.
Remarks.
This may be the species reported as "
Sergestes
sp.
indet." by
Rathbun (1904)
and
Schmitt (1921)
.