Hapalogaster cavicauda Stimpson, 1859

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 164

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scientific name	Hapalogaster cavicauda Stimpson, 1859
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Hapalogaster cavicauda Stimpson, 1859: 81 , pl. 1, fig. 7. — Bouvier 1895: 166, pl. 12, fig. 29. — Holmes 1900: 113. — Schmitt 1921: 149, pl. 29, fig. 1; fig. 9. — Johnson & Snook 1927: 337, fig. 286.— MacGinitie & MacGinitie 1968: 299. — Haig & Abbott 1980: 582, fig. 24.6. — Ricketts et al. 1985: 171, fig. 140. — Dawson 1989: 319. — Jensen 1995: 69, fig. 134. — Hendrickx & Harvey 1999: 374. — Kuris et al. 2007: 648.

Diagnosis. Body and legs very flat, covered with dense, short setae. Carapace with front bearing medial tooth, lateral teeth, prominent cervical groove, widest behind midlength. Chelipeds unequal in size, hand of larger chela with 1 or 2 small tubercles on inner surface. Pereopods 2–4 with deep incisions on anterior margins; these hidden by setae. Abdomen bulbous, visible in dorsal view. Carapace length 18.3 mm.

Color in life. Yellowish brown. The color note is based on crabs from Mendocino, Mendocino County, Calfiornia.

Habitat and depth. Under rocks in low intertidal zone, intertidal zone to 15 m.

Range. Washington; Cape Mendocino , California to San Jeronimo I ., Baja California but uncommon south of Monterey Bay , California. Type locality Monterey , California.

Remarks. Schmitt (1921) cited H. grebnitzkii Schalfeev, 1892 from "Humboldt Bay, California.” There are no other reports of the species from California. Hart (1982) gave the southern geographic limit of this species as Puget Sound, Washington. The record by Schmitt may have come from Humboldt Bay, Alaska instead of California (J. Haig, pers. comm.)

Hendrickx & Harvey (1999) reported H. cavicauda from Guaymas, Sonora, Gulf of California. This record surely is in error. This may be a misidentification of Petrolisthe s hirtipes Lockington, 1878 (Porcellanidae) .

References

Bouvier, E. - L. (1895) Sur une collection de Crustaces Decapodes recueillis en Basse-Californie par M. Diguet. Bulletin du Museum d ' Histoire Naturelle (Paris), 1, 6 - 9.

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.

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.

Hendrickx, M. E. & Harvey, A. (1999) Checklist of anomuran crabs (Crustacea; Decapoda) from the eastern tropical Pacific. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 129, 363 - 389.

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.

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.

Schalfeev, P. 1892. Carcinologische Bemerkungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Bulletin de l ' Academie Imperiale des Science de Saint-Petersbourg, 35, 331 - 342.

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].