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
Pinnixa barnharti
Rathbun, 1917
(
Fig. 57E
)
Pinnixa barnharti
Rathbun, 1917: 149
, fig. 91, pl. 32, text fig. 91. —
Schmitt 1921: 261
, pl. 41 —
Schmitt
et al.
1973: 103
. —
Garth & Abbott 1980: 614
, fig. 25.34. —
Ricketts
et al
. 1985: 338
. —
Zmarzly 1992: 679
, figs. 2, 3. —
Jensen 1995: 31
. —
Campos-Gonzalez 2007: 644
, pl 322 A.
Diagnosis.
Carapace hexagonal, calcified, convex, anterolateral margin with line of fine granules, surface coarsely pubescent towards sides, furrow behind gastric region shallow, 3 deep pits on each side anteriorly, posterior margin concave. Lobes of front prominent, arcuate. Orbits broadly oval. Length of antenna as long as width of front, one orbit. Chelipeds large, merus setose above, chelae dilated toward fingers, sinus in lower margin near base of subhorizontal fixed finger, apex obliquely truncate, lower corner armed with short, sharp tooth, dactyl oblique, making gape with fixed finger, strong tooth in middle of dactyl, fringe of setae above, patch of setae in gape. Pereopods 2– 5 thick, merus setose, propodus tapering, dactyl short, relatively straight. Pereopod 2 nearly as long as pereopod 3, pereopod 4 longest, propodus of pereopods 4, 5 setose below, carpus, propodus of pereopod 5 setose above. Carapace length to 10.7 mm.
Color in life.
Creamy to brownish with brown mottling. The color ntoes are from a crab from Abalone Cove, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los
Angeles
County,
California
.
Habitat and depth
.
Bays, sandy areas, living in cloacae of holothuroids, especially
Caudina
spp.
, low intertidal to subtidal zones.
Range.
Puget Sound
;
Venice
,
California
to
Ballenas Bay
,
Baja California
;
Zihuatanejo
,
Guerrero
,
Mexico
.
Type
locality Venice, California. Most recent records come from
southern California
.