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Lebbeus vicinus subsp. montereyensis Wicksten & Mendez 1982

Description

Lebbeus vicinus montereyensis Wicksten & Méndez, 1982

(Fig. 22D)

Lebbeus polaris: Wicksten 1978a: 6, fig. 6 [not Alpheus polaris Sabine, 1821].

Lebbeus vicinus montereyensis Wicksten & Méndez, 1982: 114, pl. 6. — Wicksten 1989b: 313; 1990b: 591. — Chace 1997: 52. — Wicksten & Hendrickx 2003: 67

Diagnosis. Rostrum of female long and slender, reaching end of scaphocerite, of male not reaching end of scaphocerite, with 3 or 4 dorsal teeth, 2 or 3 of them on carapace proper, 4 ventral teeth. First segment of antennular peduncle with sharp spine, stylocerite reaching end of first segment. Carapace with supraorbital tooth. Pereopod 1 with epipod. Pereopods 3–5 slender, dactyls with spines. Merus of pereopod 3, with 1 large distolateral, 4–6 smaller lateral spines; pereopod 4, with 4 meral spines; pereopod 5, with 3 lateral meral spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–4 rounded, 5 with sharp point. Telson with 2 pairs dorsolateral spines. Total length 50-65 mm.

Color in life. Not reported.

Habitat and depth. Benthic, 954–2086 m.

Range. Monterey Bay, California to Gulf of California, Mexico. Type locality west of Punta Banda, Baja California, Mexico.

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 page 90

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References

  • 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. (1978 a) The species of Lebbeus in California. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, N. S. 1, 1 - 8.
  • Sabine, J. (1821) Invertebrate Animals. Appendix X to W. E. Parry's Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. W. Clowes, London, pp. 209 - 239.
  • Wicksten, M. K. (1989 b) Ranges of offshore decapod crustaceans in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 21, 291 - 316.
  • Wicksten, M. K. (1990 b) Key to the hippolytid shrimp of the eastern Pacific Ocean. United States Fishery Bulletin, 88, 587 - 598.
  • 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.
  • Wicksten, M. K. & Hendrickx, M. E. (2003) An updated checklist of benthic marine and brackish water shrimps (Decapoda: Penaeoidea, Stenopodidea, Caridea) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific. In: Hendrickx, M. (Ed.) Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans Vol. 2. Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D. F., pp. 49 - 76.