Paraxanthias taylori (Stimpson, 1860)

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 244

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scientific name	Paraxanthias taylori (Stimpson, 1860)
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Paraxanthias taylori (Stimpson, 1860) View in CoL

( Fig. 55F, Pl. 14E)

Xanthodes taylori Stimpson, 1860: 208 , pl. 3, fig. 3.

Xanthias taylori .— Holmes 1900: 65. — Rathbun 1904: 185. — Weymouth 1910: 52, pl. 13, fig. 40. — Schmitt 1921: 246, fig. 147. — Johnson & Snook 1927: 389, fig. 344.

Paraxanthias taylori View in CoL . — Rathbun 1930: 466, pl. 188, pl. 189, fig. 1. — Garth & Abbott 1980: 611, fig. 25.28. — Ricketts et al. 1985: 172, fig. 142. — Jensen 1995: 19, fig. 9. — Kuris et al. 2007: 642, pl. 320B.

Diagnosis. Carapace nearly flat posteriorly, front divided by wide, rounded notch, with 4 or 5 anterolateral teeth, anterior half of carapace bearing bumps or tubercles. Chelipeds often unequal, carpus covered with rounded tubercles, hand with tubercles in 7–8 longitudinal rows; fingers stout, black; gaping in major chela. Pereopods 2–5 covered with stiff setae. Carapace length 24.6 mm.

Color in life. Dark red, lighter below, fingers black. See color photograph by Jensen (1995) and pl. 14E.

Habitat and depth. Among rocks, kelp holdfasts or among tube mollusks, intertidal zone to 100 m.

Range. Monterey, California to Magdalena Bay , Baja California. Type locality Monterey .

Remarks. The lumpy rubble crab is most common from Santa Monica Bay southward into Baja California.

References

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.

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.

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

Rathbun, M. J. (1930) The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 152, 1 - 593.

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.

Weymouth, F. W. (1910) Synopsis of the true crabs (Brachyura) of Monterey Bay, California. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University series 4, 1 - 64.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Xanthidae
Genus	Paraxanthias