Lopholithodes foraminatus ( Stimpson, 1859 )

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 167-168

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scientific name	Lopholithodes foraminatus ( Stimpson, 1859 )
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Lopholithodes foraminatus ( Stimpson, 1859) View in CoL

(Pl. 6D)

Echinocerus foraminatus Stimpson, 1859: 79 .

Lopholithodes foraminatus View in CoL . — Holmes 1900; 130. — Schmitt 1921: 157, pl. 21, fig. 2; fig. 102. — Johnson & Snook 1927: 340, figs. 288, 294. — Goodwin 1952: 176. — MacGinitie & MacGinitie 1968: 300. — Pereyra & Alton 1972: 450. — Wicksten 1980: 363. — Hart 1982: 80, fig. 24. — Wicksten 1980c: 363; 1982b: 245; 1989b: 314. — Dawson 1989: 318. — Jensen 1995: 72, fig 143. — Martin & Haney 2005: 450. — Kuris et al. 2007: 648.

Diagnosis. Carapace tuberculate, depressed; gastric region elevated, margins with low, wide spines. Rostrum short, with median spine, spiny tubercles above base. Chelipeds tuberculate, equal; with broad sinus on carpus forming, with similar sinus on pereopods 2, large respiratory opening. Pereopods 2–4 tuberculate, capable of being drawn tightly against cephalothorax. Abdomen asymmetrical, tuberculate. Carapace length to 165 mm.

Color in life. Drab reddish-brown or tan. The color notes are based on crabs trawled off southern California.

Habitat and depth. Sandy subtidal areas, rarely low intertidal zone to 547 m.

Range. Kodiak, Alaska to San Diego, California. Type locality "near San Francisco, California.” The crab often is trawled north of San Francisco .

Remarks. MacGinitie & MacGinitie (1968) gave a good account of the natural history of this burrowing crab. Martin & Haney (2005) reported this species from extinct vent sites in the Oregon Subduction Zone.

References

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.

Goodwin, D. G. (1952) Some decapod Crustacea dredged off the coast of central California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 27, 393 - 397.

Hart, J. F. L. (1982) Crabs and their Relatives of British Columbia. British Columbia Provincial Museum Handbook 40, Victoria, 267 pp.

Holmes, S. J. (1900) Synopsis of California stalk-eyed Crustacea. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 7, 12 - 62.

Jensen, G. C. (1995) Pacific Coast Crabs and Shrimps. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California, 87 pp.

Johnson, M. E. & Snook, H. J. (1927) Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast. Dover Publications, New York, reprint 1967, 659 pp.

Kuris, A. M., Sadeghian, P. & Carlton, J. T. (2007) Keys to Decapod Crustacea. In: Carlton, J. T. (Ed.) The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates Central California to Oregon. University of California Press, Berkeley, 4 th ed., pp. 636 - 656.

MacGinitie, G. E. & MacGinitie, N. (1968) Natural History of Marine Animals. McGraw-Hill, NewYork, second ed., 523 pp.

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.

Schmitt, W. L. (1921) The marine decapod Crustacea of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, 23, 1 - 470.

Stimpson, W. (1859 - 1860) Notes on North American Crustacea, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York, 7, [pp. 49 - 93 published in 1859; pp. 176 - 246 published in 1860].

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.

Wicksten, M. K. (1982 b) Crustaceans from baited traps and gill nets off southern California. California Fish and Game, 68, 244 - 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.