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Lebbeus speciosus

Description

Lebbeus speciosus (Urita, 1942)

(Fig. 22C)

Spirontocaris makarofi speciosa Urita, 1942: 19, fig. 4.

Lebbeus possjeticus Kobyakova, 1967: 235, fig. 4. — Wicksten & Méndez 1982: 118. — Wicksten 1990b: 592.

Lebbeus speciosus. — Hayashi 1992: 132, figs. 13, 14.— Chace 1997: 52.

Diagnosis. Rostrum moderately deep, exceeding apex of antennular peduncle, with 5–7 dorsal teeth, 2 on carapace proper, 3 or 4 ventral teeth. First segment of antennular peduncle with 3 or 4 terminal spines, stylocerite reaching second segment. Carapace with strong supraorbital tooth. Pereopods 1–3 with epipods. Pereopods 3–5 slender, with short, spinose dactyls. Merus of pereopod 3, with 4 spines; pereopod 4, with 3 or 4 spines; pereopod 5, with 1 or 2 spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–3 rounded, 4, 5 with small points. Telson with 4 or 5 pairs dorsolateral spines. Total length 32 mm.

Color in life. Carapace, abdomen with dark brown bands, telson dark brown, appendages brown, white (Hayashi 1992).

Habitat and depth. Rocky shores, subtidal areas, 0–57 m.

Range. Hokkaido, Siberia, Bering I., and off San Nicolas I., California. Type locality Sakhalin.

Notes

Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on pages 89-90

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hippolytidae
Genus
Lebbeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Urita
Species
speciosus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lebbeus speciosus (Urita, 1942) sec. Wicksten, 2012

References

  • Urita, T. (1942) Decapod crustaceans from Saghalien, Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 12, 1 - 78.
  • Kobyakova, Z. I. (1967) Desjatinogie raki (Crustacea, Decapoda) Zaliva Posjet (Japonskoe More). In: Issled Fauny Morei 5 (13): Biotsenozy Posjet Japonskogo Morja. Akademiya NAUK SSSR, Zoologisch Instituta, Moscow, pp. 230 - 246.
  • Wicksten, M. K. & Mendez, M. (1982) New records and new species of Lebbeus (Caridea: Hippolytidae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 81, 106 - 120.
  • Wicksten, M. K. (1990 b) Key to the hippolytid shrimp of the eastern Pacific Ocean. United States Fishery Bulletin, 88, 587 - 598.
  • Hayashi, K. (1992) Studies on the hippolytid shrimps from Japan-VIII. The genus Lebbeus White. Journal of the Shimonoseki University of Fisheries, 40, 107 - 138.
  • Chace, F. A. Jr. (1997) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910, Part 7: families Atyidae, Eugonatonotidae, Rhynchocinetidae, Bathypalaemonellidae, Processidae, and Hippolytidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 587, 1 - 106.