Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp, 1939

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 43

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254860
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scientific name	Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp, 1939
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Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp, 1939: 571 . — Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 83. — Chace 1986: 26, figs. 3h, 4t, 7g, 10c, 14. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 114. — Wicksten 2002: 135.

Diagnosis. Exoskeleton firm. Rostrum longer than carapace, with 3–7 dorsal, 6 ventral teeth. Carapace with blunt carina near rostrum, small antennal tooth, branchiostegal tooth with short posterior carina. Third maxilliped longer than first or second pereopods. Pereopods 3–5 setose, with few spines on merus, ischium. Abdominal somites 2–6 with dorsomedial carina, median tooth on somites 3–6, somite 6 with distolateral tooth. Telson with dorsal groove, 4 pairs lateral, terminal spines. Total length 40 mm.

Color in life. Red. The color note is from a specimen taken off Oahu, Hawaiian Is.

Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 250–5040 m; may migrate between 180–1500 m.

Range. Indo-West Pacific, Oregon, and Atlantic Ocean. Type locality south and eastern Africa .

References

Chace, F. A. Jr. (1986) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910, Part 4: Families Oplophoridae and Nematocarcinidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 432, 1 - 82.

Hendrickx, M. E. & Estrada-Navarrete, F. D. (1989) A checklist of the species of pelagic shrimps (Penaeoidea and Caridea) from the eastern Pacific, with notes on their geographic and depth distribution. California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations Report, 30, 104 - 121.

Kemp, S. (1939) On Acanthephyra purpurea and its allies (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hoplophoridae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 11 (4), 568 - 579.

Krygier, E. E. & Pearcy, W. G. (1981) Vertical distribution and biology of pelagic decapod crustaceans off Oregon. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 1, 70 - 95.

Wicksten, M. K. (2002) Midwater decapods of the northeastern Pacific. In: Hendrickx, M. E. (Ed.) Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans. Vol. 1. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D. F., pp. 127 - 144.