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
Parapagurodes laurentae
McLaughlin & Haig, 1973
(
Fig. 46G–J
)
Parapagurodes laurentae
McLaughlin & Haig, 1973: 129
, figs. 4b, 9–11.
Diagnosis.
Rostrum triangular, acute, often with small spine, longer than lateral projections of carapace and reaching less than half length of ocular scale. Eyestalk robust, short, with cornea dilated; ocular scale subtriangular and ending subacutely. Major cheliped long and slender. Merus with tufts of setae, carpus, palm, fingers with rows of spines, very long, sharp spines along mesial margins. Minor cheliped similar but more elongate, fingers especially long. Pereopods 2, 3 long, dactyls at least as long as propodi with row of strong spines on ventral margins.Telson generally symmetrical; lateral margin notched; with posterior cleft, flanked with teeth, spinules. Uropods asymmetrical. Carapace length to 3.5 mm.
Color in life.
Not
reported.
Habitat and depth.
Mud and gray sand, upper continental slope,
16–475 m
.
Range.
Off Santa Cruz I.
, California to Pacific coast of
Baja California
and off
San Pedro Nolasco I.
,
Gulf of California
,
Mexico
.
Type
locality off Seal Rocks, Santa
Catalina I.
, California
.