Heptacarpus paludicola Holmes, 1900

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 85

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Heptacarpus paludicola Holmes, 1900
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Heptacarpus paludicola Holmes, 1900

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Heptacarpus paludicola Holmes, 1900: 201 , pl. 3, figs. 56–57. — Holthuis 1947: 12. — Kozloff 1974: 167. — Word & Charwat 1976: 123. — Butler 1980: 227. — Chace & Abbott 1980: 569. — Ricketts et al. 1985: 85, fig. 66. — Wicksten 1990b: 595. — Chace 1997: 44. — Kuris et al. 2007: 639, pl. 318 F.

Spirontocaris paludicola . — Rathbun 1904: 101. — Schmitt 1921: 64, fig. 42. — Johnson & Snook 1927: 306, fig. 259f.

Diagnosis. Rostrum extending beyond antennular peduncle, with 6–8 dorsal,2–4 ventral teeth. Spine on each of three segments of antennular peduncle, stylocerite not reaching end of first segment. Third maxilliped, pereopods 1, 2 with epipods. Pereopods 3–5 with spinose bifid dactyls. Merus of pereopod 3, with 5 spines; pereopod 4, with 4 spines; pereopod 5, with 2–4 spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–3 rounded, fourth with weak point, fifth with well developed point. Telson with 4 or 5 pairs dorsolateral spines. Male total length 20 mm, female 32 mm.

Color in life. Green, with bands, stripes, or speckles; transparent; color dependent on size and substrate. Blue to aquamarine at night ( Bauer 1981).

Habitat and depth. Tide pools, eelgrass beds, intertidal zone to 10 m.

Range. Tava I., Alaska to San Diego, California. Type locality Humboldt Bay , California .

Bauer, R. T. (1981) Color patterns of the shrimps Heptacarpus pictus and H. paludicola (Caridea: Hippolytidae). Marine Biology, 64, 141 - 152.

Butler, T. H. (1980) Shrimps of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 202, 1 - 280.

Chace, F. A. Jr. & Abbott, D. P. (1980) Caridea: the shrimps. In: Morris, R. H., Abbott, D. P. & Haderlie, E. C. (Eds.) Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 567 - 576.

Chace, F. A. Jr. (1997) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910, Part 7: families Atyidae, Eugonatonotidae, Rhynchocinetidae, Bathypalaemonellidae, Processidae, and Hippolytidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 587, 1 - 106.

Holmes, S. J. (1900) Synopsis of California stalk-eyed Crustacea. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 7, 12 - 62.

Holthuis, L. B. (1947) The Decapoda of the Siboga expedition Part IX: the Hippolytidae and Rhynchocinetidae. Siboga Expeditie, 39 a (8), 1 - 100.

Johnson, M. E. & Snook, H. J. (1927) Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast. Dover Publications, New York, reprint 1967, 659 pp.

Kozloff, E. N. (1974) Keys to the Marine Invertebrates of Puget Sound, the San Juan Archipelago, and Adjacent Regions. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 226 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.

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.

Wicksten, M. K. (1990 b) Key to the hippolytid shrimp of the eastern Pacific Ocean. United States Fishery Bulletin, 88, 587 - 598.

Word, J. & Charwat, D. (1976) Invertebrates of Southern California Coastal Waters. II. Natantia. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, El Segundo, California. 238 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Hippolytidae

Genus

Heptacarpus