Bythograea, WILLIAMS, 1980

Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4), pp. 445-522 : 489

GENUS BYTHOGRAEA WILLIAMS, 1980

By far the most diverse of the bythograeid genera, Bythograea contains at least six and possibly more species, all of which are endemic to hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific (see below). It is probable that the bythograeid crabs encountered (but not collected) by Stecher et al. (2002) from the Foundation Seamount Chain of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge also belong to this genus, as it is due south of known sites where crabs of the genus Bythograea have been documented and collected. Clark & O’Shea (2001) reported an undescribed species of Bythograea from the Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand; we are not aware of that species having been described.