Spirontocaris holmesi Holthuis 1947
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Spirontocaris holmesi Holthuis, 1947
(Fig. 23A)
Spirontocaris bispinosa Holmes, 1900: 207. — Rathbun 1904: 68, fig. 23. — Schmitt 1921: 54, fig. 30. [Not Hippolyte bispinosa De Haan, 1841; = Sicyonia bispinosa (De Haan, 1849); Sicyoniidae].
Spirontocaris holmesi Holthuis, 1947: 38. — Kozloff 1974: 166. — Word & Charwat 1976 b: 149. — Hayashi 1977: 158. — Butler 1980: 165, pl. 6E. — Wicksten 1984b: 135; 1989b: 313; 1990b: 590.— Chace 1997: 56.
Diagnosis. Rostrum moderately deep, with distal styliform process bearing one subapical ventral tooth, 8–16 dorsal, 3–7 ventral teeth, 2 on carapace proper. Each segment of antennular peduncle with dorsal spine, stylocerite reaching second segment. Carapace with 2 supraorbital teeth. Pereopods 1, 2 with epipods. Pereopods 3–5 long, slender; with long, simple dactyls, 0.5–0.6 times length of propodi. Merus of pereopod 3, with 6–7 spines; pereopod 4, with 5–8 spines; pereopod 5, with 4 or 5 spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–4 rounded, of 5 with small point. Telson with 3 or 4 pairs dorsolateral spines, apex rounded. Male total length to 44 m, female to 62 mm.
Color in life. Body yellowish, with lines, bars, dots, patches of red (Butler 1980).
Habitat and depth. Mud or sand, 24–485 m. Specimens from California usually taken at 150–300 m.
Range. Yes Bay, Alaska to San Diego, California. Type locality Puget Sound.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Hippolytidae
- Genus
- Spirontocaris
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Holthuis
- Species
- holmesi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spirontocaris holmesi Holthuis, 1947 sec. Wicksten, 2012
References
- Holthuis, L. B. (1947) The Decapoda of the Siboga expedition Part IX: the Hippolytidae and Rhynchocinetidae. Siboga Expeditie, 39 a (8), 1 - 100.
- Holmes, S. J. (1900) Synopsis of California stalk-eyed Crustacea. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 7, 12 - 62.
- Rathbun, M. J. (1904) Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 10, 1 - 219.
- Schmitt, W. L. (1921) The marine decapod Crustacea of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, 23, 1 - 470.
- Kozloff, E. N. (1974) Keys to the Marine Invertebrates of Puget Sound, the San Juan Archipelago, and Adjacent Regions. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 226 pp.
- Word, J. & Charwat, D. (1976) Invertebrates of Southern California Coastal Waters. II. Natantia. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, El Segundo, California. 238 pp.
- Hayashi, K. (1977) Studies on the hipplytid shrimps from Japan - VI. The genus Spirontocaris Bate. Journal of the Shimonoseki University of Fisheries, 25, 155 - 186.
- Butler, T. H. (1980) Shrimps of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 202, 1 - 280.
- Wicksten, M. K. (1984 b) New records and a new species of hippolytid shrimp from the northeastern Pacific. Crustaceana, 46, 241 - 248.
- 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.