Scleroplax granulata Rathbun 1893
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Scleroplax granulata Rathbun, 1893: 251; 1904: 188, pl. 7, fig. 5; 1917: 171, pl. 37, figs. 1–3, text fig. 109. — Weymouth 1910: 59, text fig. 85. — Schmitt 1921: 267, pl. 44, figs. 1–3. — Johnson & Snook 1921: 394. — Schmitt et al. 1973: 96. — Garth & Abbott 1980: 618, fig. 25.41. — Hart 1982: 228, fig. 94. — Ricketts et al. 1985: 384, fig. 300. — Jensen 1995: 30, fig. 40. — Campos-Gonzalez 2006: 33, fig. 1 A–C; 2007: 644, pl. 322 D2.
Diagnosis. Carapace subpentagonal, hard, granulate anteriorly near margins; punctate elsewhere; front narrow, produced, slightly convex. Orbits nearly circular, eyestalk short, thick. Antennules almost transverse. Chela of male swollen, heavy; those of female not as large. Dactyl curved, fixed finger with large tooth, fingers gaping. Pereopods 2–5 slender, granulate. Pereopod 4 longest, its segments narrow, flattened; dactyls slender, almost straight, nearly as long as dactyls. Male abdomen narrow, tapering gradually to broad terminal segment, female abdomen fringed with setae. Male carapace length about 3 mm, female to 6 mm.
Color in life. Grayish white, brownish, yellowish mottled with red-brown (Hart 1982).
Habitat and depth. Bays and harbors, symbiotic with echiuroid worm Urechis caupo, ghost shrimps Neotrypaea californiensis, N. gigas, Upogebia pugettensis, and U. macginitieorum; intertidal zone to 13 m.
Range. Roller Bay, Vancouver I. to El Coyote Estuary, Abreojos Point, Baja California; off Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Type locality Ensenada, Baja California.
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- Rathbun
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Decapoda
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- Pinnotheridae
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- Scleroplax
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- granulata
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- Scleroplax granulata Rathbun, 1893 sec. Wicksten, 2012
References
- Rathbun, M. J. (1893) Descriptions of new genera and species of crabs from the west coast of America and the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 16, 223 - 260.
- Rathbun, M. J. (1904) Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 10, 1 - 219.
- Weymouth, F. W. (1910) Synopsis of the true crabs (Brachyura) of Monterey Bay, California. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University series 4, 1 - 64.
- Schmitt, W. L. (1921) The marine decapod Crustacea of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, 23, 1 - 470.
- Schmitt, W. L., McCain, J. C., & Davidson, E. D. (1973) Crustaceorum Catalogus. Part 3. Decapoda I, Brachyura 1. Fam. Pinnotheridae. Dr, W. Junk B. V., The Hague, the Netherlands, 160 pp.
- Garth, J. S. & Abbott, D. (1980) Brachyura: the true crabs. In: Morris, D., Abbott, D. & Haderlie, E. (Eds). Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 594 - 630.
- Hart, J. F. L. (1982) Crabs and their Relatives of British Columbia. British Columbia Provincial Museum Handbook 40, Victoria, 267 pp.
- Ricketts, E. F., Calvin, J., Hedgpeth, J. W. & Phillips, D. W. (1985) Between Pacific Tides. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 5 th ed., 652 pp.
- Jensen, G. C. (1995) Pacific Coast Crabs and Shrimps. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California, 87 pp.