Gennadas propinquus Rathbun, 1906

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 22

Gennadas propinquus Rathbun, 1906

( Fig. 4Q–T, 5 H)

Gennadas propinquus Rathbun, 1906: 907 , fig. 61a,b. — Anderson & Lindner 1943: 295. — Pearcy & Forss 1966: 1137. — Ebeling et al. 1969: 12. — Crosnier 1978: 38, figs. 16b, 18d,e.— Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 77. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 107; 1996: 29, fig. 15 (extensive synonymy). — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 66. — Guzmán & Wicksten 2000: 927. — Wicksten 2002: 130.

Diagnosis. Similar to G. sordidus except rostrum, gastric tooth slender. Stylocerite slender. Antennular peduncle pubescent. Thelycum with large subtriangular shield between bases of pereopods 3, followed by narrow transverse plate and then subcordate disk between pereopods 5. Total length 32 mm.

Color in life. Bright red, blue spots on appendages.

Habitat and depth. Pelagic, surface to 1200 m, by day, above 100 m and below 500 m at night, usually at 200–1000 m off Oregon .

Range. Indo-West Pacific, Oregon to vicinity of Magdalena Bay, Baja California; Chile, eastern Atlantic , off South Africa. Common in southern California. Type locality between Erben Bank and Kaiwi Channel, Hawaiian Is.