Emerita analoga (Stimpson, 1857)

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 163

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scientific name	Emerita analoga (Stimpson, 1857)
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Emerita analoga (Stimpson, 1857) View in CoL

( Fig. 38 G, Pl. 5 D)

Hippa analoga, 1857a: 85 View in CoL . — Holmes 1900: 103.

Emerita analoga View in CoL . — Rathbun 1904: 168. — Schmitt 1921: 173 (extensive synonymy). — Johnson & Snook 1927: 341, figs. 289–290. — MacGinitie & MacGinitie 1968: 301, figs. 145–148. — Haig et al. 1970: 25. — Haig & Abbott 1980: 581, fig. 24.4. — Hart 1982: 164, fig. 64. — Ricketts et al. 1985: 252, fig. 204. — Jensen 1995: 77, fig. 155. — Kuris et al. 2007: 648, pl. 326 D.

Diagnosis. Body egg-shaped. Carapace with fine transverse striations on anterior half, front with 3 broad teeth, lateral margins without teeth. Eyestalk long, slender; cornea pigmented. Both pairs antennae setose, antennal flagella long, with double rows of setae, capable of being folded beneath mouth parts. First pereopods flattened, not chelate. Pereopods 2–4 flattened, dactyls curved. Abdominal somites decreasing in size, ending in arrowheadshaped telson. Uropods well developed. Carapace length to 35 mm.

Color in life. Carapace greenish to gray with fine stripes of light color anteriorly, with two white dots posteriorly on light colored mid-dorsal area, lateral areas pink. First pereopods pink, white, other pereopods mostly pink. Abdomen gray, telson white, with two pink stripes.

Habitat and depth. Surf-swept sandy beaches, mostly in intertidal zone.

Range. Usually from Oregon to Mexico, rarely as far north as Karluk, Kodiak I., Alaska. Records from Peru, Chile and Argentina probably belong to another species (J. Haig, pers. comm.). Type locality "California.” ( Many of Stimpson's specimens came from the area of San Francisco to Monterey, California) .

Remarks. This small crab is an important prey item for nearshore fishes and shorebirds, as well as a muchused item of bait. Haig & Abbott (1980) gave extensive references on this crab.

References

Haig, J., Hopkins, T. S, & Scanland, T. B. (1970) The shallow water anomuran crab fauna of southwestern Baja California, Mexico. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 16, 13 - 32.

Haig, J. & Abbott, D. (1980) Macrura and Anomura: the ghost shrimps, hermit crabs, and allies. In: Morris, R., Abbott, D. & E. Haderlie, E. (Eds.) Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 577 - 593.

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.

Rathbun, M. J. (1904) Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 10, 1 - 219.

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.

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