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
Taliepus nuttallii
(
Randall, 1840
)
(
Fig.49 F
, Pl. 10 F)
Epialtus nuttallii
Randall, 1840: 109
. —
Holmes 1900: 23
. —
Rathbun 1904: 173
. —
Schmitt 1921: 202
, text fig. 125. —
Johnson & Snook 1927: 367
, fig. 319.
Taliepus nuttallii
. —
Rathbun 1925: 162
, pls. 50, 51; text fig. 61. —
Garth & Abbott 1980: 597
, fig. 25.3. —
Ricketts
et al
. 1985: 136
. —
Jensen 1995: 24
, fig. 24.
Taliepus nuttalli
. —
Garth 1958: 208
, pl. L, fig. 8; pl. 22. — Hendrickx 1999: 117, pl. 2D, 3A, B.
Diagnosis.
Rostrum with convergent sides, inclined downward, with triangular notch at apex. Carapace ovate, convex, smooth. No preorbital tooth, postorbital tooth small. Antennae not reaching end of rostrum.
Male
cheliped stout, unarmed, fingers gaping, margins of fingers with row of low teeth; female cheliped more slender, fingers not gaping. Pereopods 2–5 stout, subcylindrical, dactyls strongly curved, with 2 rows of spinules on dactyls. Seven free abdominal segments in both sexes.
Male
carapace length
106 mm
, carapace width
92 mm
; female approximately half this size.
FIGURE 49.
Families
Epialtidae
and
Inachidae
. A, B,
Epialtoides hiltoni
(
Rathbun, 1923
)
; A, dorsal view; B, cheliped. C,
Mimulus foliatus
Stimpson, 1860
; adult male. D, E,
Pugettia venetiae
Rathbun, 1924
; D, ventral view; E, dorsal view of cephalothorax with detached cheliped. F,
Taliepus nuttalli
(Randall, 1839)
. G,
Ericerodes hemphilii
(Lockington, 1877)
; adult male. H, I,
Erileptus spinosus
Rathbun, 1893
; H, dorsal view of cephalothorax; I, cheliped. Scales: A= 5mm; C–E, G–I = 10 mm. F = 60 mm. A, B, H, I from Hendrickx 1999; C from
Wicksten 1983c
, D, E from
Rathbun 1925
, F, G from
Schmitt 1921
.
Color in life.
Juvenile camouflaged like algae, olive-green to reddish; adults red-brown to dark purple. The color notes are from crabs from Point Fermin, Los
Angeles
County,
California
.
Habitat and depth.
Rocky shores, kelp beds, especially among brown algae, intertidal to
92 m
, but usually less than
50 m
.
Range.
Santa Barbara
,
California
to
Magdalena
Bay
,
Baja California
.
Type
locality "Upper
California
.”