Paralomis multispina
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(Fig. 39I, Pl. 6A)
Leptolithodes multispinus Benedict, 1895: 484. — Rathbun 1904: 165.
Paralomis multispina. — Bouvier 1896: 25. — Schmitt 1921: 159, pl. 23, pl. 30, figs. 7, 8. — Goodwin 1952: 176, fig. 8. — Makarov 1962: 257, fig. 102. — Pereyra & Alton 1972: 450. — Wicksten 1980c: 364; 1982: 245; 1989b: 314. — Hart 1982: 88, fig. 28. — Dawson 1989: 318. — Hendrickx & Harvey 1999: 374. — Martin & Haney 2005: 450. — Hall & Thatje 2010: 504, fig. 7.
Diagnosis. Carapace about as long as wide, dorsal surface, lateral margins with numerous spines: stout, sharptipped, conical in adult, short, blunt in juvenile with carapace width of 30 mm or less. Rostrum with simple median spine, two basal spines. Chelipeds unequal, slender, with prominent spines on carpus. Pereopods 2–4 elongate, cylindrical, thickly set with spines. Female abdomen twisted to right. Carapace length 80 mm.
Color in life. Body red to pale pink, spines dark red. The color notes are from a crab taken in a trap off southern California.
Habitat and depth. Muddy continental slope, 1100–1577 m. The crab has been found near cold seeps off Japan.
Range. Sagami Bay, Japan; Shumagin Bank, Alaska to off Guadalupe I., Baja California; off Carmen I., Gulf of California. Type locality off Queen Charlotte Is.
Remarks. This large crab has been fished commercially by trapping. The caprellid amphipod Caprella ungulina Mayer, 1903; clings to the legs of this crab (Wicksten 1982). Hall & Thatje (2010) demonstrated ontogenetic changes in the morphology of crabs of the genus Paralomis, including this species. Juveniles have much shorter dorsal carapace spines than do adults.
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- Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D96F29FF8DFFA8FC8CFE2DFC360B72 (URL)
- Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.5177980 (DOI)
- Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BE009266390DFFCF47E384CF0B00FA84 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Benedict
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Lithodidae
- Genus
- Paralomis
- Species
- multispina
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paralomis multispina (Benedict, 1895) sec. Wicksten, 2012
References
- Benedict, J. E. (1895) Scientific results of the explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer " Albatross " No. XXXI. Descriptions of new genera and species of crabs of the family Lithodidae, with notes on the young of Lithodes camtschaticus and Lithodes brevipes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 17, 479 - 488.
- Rathbun, M. J. (1904) Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 10, 1 - 219.
- Bouvier, E. L. (1896) Sur la classification des Lithodines et sur leur distribution dans les oceans. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie ser. 8, 1: 1 - 46.
- Schmitt, W. L. (1921) The marine decapod Crustacea of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, 23, 1 - 470.
- Goodwin, D. G. (1952) Some decapod Crustacea dredged off the coast of central California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 27, 393 - 397.
- Makarov, V. V. (1962) Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Crustacea. Volume X, no. 3. Anomura. National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. 283 pp.
- Wicksten, M. K. (1980 c) Mainland and insular assemblges of benthic decapod crustaceans of southern California. In: Power, D. M. (Ed). The California Islands: Proceedings of a Multidisciplinary Symposium. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, pp. 357 - 367.
- Hart, J. F. L. (1982) Crabs and their Relatives of British Columbia. British Columbia Provincial Museum Handbook 40, Victoria, 267 pp.
- Dawson, E. (1989) King crabs of the world (Crustacea: Lithodidae) and their fisheries. A comprehensive bibliography. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Miscellaneous Publication, 101, 1 - 338.
- Hendrickx, M. E. & Harvey, A. (1999) Checklist of anomuran crabs (Crustacea; Decapoda) from the eastern tropical Pacific. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 129, 363 - 389.
- Martin, J. & Haney, T. (2005) Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2005, 145, 445 - 522.
- Hall, S. & Thatje, S. (2010) King crabs up-close: ontogenetic changes in ornamentation in the family Lithodidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura), with a focus on the genus Paralomis. Zoosystema, 32, 495 - 524.