Glebocarcinus amphioetus (Rathbun, 1898)

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 228-230

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scientific name	Glebocarcinus amphioetus (Rathbun, 1898)
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Glebocarcinus amphioetus (Rathbun, 1898) View in CoL

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Cancer amphioetus Rathbun, 1898a: 582 View in CoL . — Rathbun 1904: 175, pl. 6, fig. 3; 1930: 205, pl. 91. — Schmitt 1921: 223, pl. 36, figs. 1, 2. — Johnson & Snook 1927: 378. — Sakai 1965: 105, pl. 48, fig. 1. — Nations 1975: 30, figs. 15AB, 16AB, 30- 7, 30-8. — Word & Charwat 1975: 41.— Garth & Abbott 1980: 604. — Jensen 1995: 29.

Glebocarcinus amphioetus View in CoL .—Schweitzer & Feldmann 200: 235.

Diagnosis. Carapace smooth, strongly areolated, front with 5 median teeth, median tooth small; anterolateral margins with 9 flat, broadly triangular teeth, tiny tooth 10. Third maxilliped with merus truncated anteriorly. Body not setose. Carpus of cheliped with 2 teeth, one at distal end, second below it on inner angle; hand of cheliped with 1–2 spines on upper margin, 3 longitudinal ridges on outer surface. Pereopods 2–5 stout. Male carapace length 22.2 mm, female 27.5 mm.

Color in life. Reddish brown, lighter beneath; fingers of chelae dark, with color reaching more than half of length of outer margin.

Habitat and depth. On rocks, sand, shells, mud, intertidal to 148 m, usually subtidal.

Range. El Segundo, California to Magdalena Bay , Baja California; Gulf of California, Japan, Korea, and northern China. Type locality "off the Korean coast.”

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.

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.

Nations, J. D. (1975) The genus Cancer (Crustacea: Brachyura): systematics, biogeography and fossil record. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Bulletin, 23, 1 - 104.

Phillips, J. B. (1939) The market crab of California and its close relatives. California Fish and Game, 25, 18 - 29.

Rathbun, M. J. (1897) A revision of the nomenclature of the Brachyura. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 11, 153 - 167.

Rathbun, M. J. (1898 a) The Brachyura collected by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross on the voyage from Norfolk, Virginia, to San Francisco, California, 1887 - 1888. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 21, 567 - 616.

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

Sakai, T. (1965) The Crabs of Sagami Bay. East-West Center Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 206 pp.

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

Word, J. & Charwat, D. (1975) Key to Cancer. In: Word, J. & Charwat, D. (Eds.) Invertebrates of Southern California Coastal Water s. I. Selected Groups of Annelids, Arthropods, Echinoderms and Molluscs. Southern California Coastal Water Project, El Segundo, California, pp. 35 - 54.