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Eualus barbatus

Description

Eualus barbatus (Rathbun, 1899)

(Fig. 18B, C)

Spirontocaris barbata Rathbun, 1899: 556; 1904: 82, fig. 35.

Eualus barbatus. — Holthuis 1947: 10. — Kozloff 1974: 165. — Butler 1980: 190, pl. 5C. — Wicksten 1984b: 246; 1989b: 312; 1990b: 593. — Chace 1997: 42. — Jensen 2004: 468.

Diagnosis. Rostrum moderately deep, reaching beyond antennular peduncle, with 5–8 dorsal, 3–4 ventral teeth. Stylocerite of antennular peduncle reaching about to end of first segment. Carapace with weak suborbital, strong antennal, pterygostomian teeth. Pereopods lacking epipods. Pereopods 3–5 slender, with spinose dactyls. Merus of pereopod 3, with 3–4 spines; pereopod 4, with 4–5 spines; pereopod 5, with 4–5 spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 3–5 rounded, somites 3–5 each with dorsal carina, tooth; somites 4–5 with ventral point. Telson with 3 pairs dorsolateral spines. Male total length 76 mm, female 95 mm.

Color in life. Body with light orange bands and spots (Butler 1980).

Habitat and depth. Soft mud, 82–507 m.

Range. Pribilof Is., Alaska to Santa Monica Bay, California. Type locality off St. George I., Pribilof Is.

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 75-76

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hippolytidae
Genus
Eualus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rathbun
Species
barbatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Eualus barbatus (Rathbun, 1899) sec. Wicksten, 2012

References

  • Rathbun, M. J. (1899). List of the Crustacea known to occur on or near the Pribilof Islands. In: Jordan, J. D. (Ed.) The Fur Seals and Fur Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, Part III. Washington, D. C., pp. 555 - 557.
  • Rathbun, M. J. (1904) Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 10, 1 - 219.
  • Holthuis, L. B. (1947) The Decapoda of the Siboga expedition Part IX: the Hippolytidae and Rhynchocinetidae. Siboga Expeditie, 39 a (8), 1 - 100.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jensen, G. C. (2004) Status of Eualus pusiolus in the northeastern Pacific, with a description of a new species of Eualus (Decapoda: Hippolytidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 24, 463 - 469.