Glyphocrangon vicaria Faxon, 1896

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 122-123

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Glyphocrangon vicaria Faxon, 1896 View in CoL

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Glyphocrangon nobilis?: Faxon 1895: 142 View in CoL .

Glyphocrangon vicaria Faxon, 1896: 159 View in CoL , pl. 1, figs. 5–6. — Wicksten 1979c: 221, Fig. 4A–B; 1989b: 314. — Wicksten & Hendrickx 2003: 70.

Diagnosis. Exoskeleton firm, with scattered nodules but not covered with spines. Rostrum longer than scaphocerite, with 1 pair lateral teeth just beyond cornea of eye, another near base. Carapace with prominent antennal, branchiostegal teeth, each with supporting carina; also cervical, lateral grooves; nodules along submedial carinae, posterior intermediate carina, anterior, posterior antennal carinae. Antennular peduncle stout. Scaphocerite oval, without small tooth. First maxilliped stout, setose, with exopod. Pereopod 1 subchelate. Pereopod 2 slender, subchelate, carpus multi-articulate. Pereopods 3–5 similar, dactylus of third simple, dactyls of 4–5 flattened. Abdominal somite 1 small, pleura rounded. Abdominal pleuron 2 with one ventral tooth, pleura of somites 3–5 with two ventrolateral teeth each. Abdominal pleuron 6 ending in prominent tooth visible from above. Telson exceeding uropods. Total length 157 mm.

Color in life. Brownish-orange.

Habitat and depth. Mud, 938–3880 m.

Range. San Clemente Basin, California, U.S.A. to off Galapagos Is. Type locality north of Galapagos Is. (Albatross sta. 3411, 0 ˚54'N, 91˚ 9' W) .

References

Faxon, W. (1895) Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., commanding. 15. The stalk-eyed Crustacea. Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College Memoir, 18, 1 - 292.

Faxon, W. (1896) Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and on the east coast of the United States, 1877 - 1880, by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer Blake , Lieut. - Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., and Commander J. R. Barlett, U. S. N., Commanding, 37. Supplementary notes on the Crustacea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 39, 153 - 166.

Wicksten, M. K. (1979 c) New records of the species of Glyphocrangon in the northeastern Pacific Ocean (Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 92, 217 - 224.

Wicksten, M. K. & Hendrickx, M. E. (2003) An updated checklist of benthic marine and brackish water shrimps (Decapoda: Penaeoidea, Stenopodidea, Caridea) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific. In: Hendrickx, M. (Ed.) Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans Vol. 2. Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D. F., pp. 49 - 76.