Benthesicymus altus Bate, 1881

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 18

Benthesicymus altus Bate, 1881

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Benthesicymus altus Bate, 1881: 191 . — Faxon 1895: 203. — Schmitt 1921: 22, pl. 11, fig. 2. — Anderson & Lindner 1943: 298. — Wicksten 1989b: 311. — Kikuchi & Nemoto 1991: 85, figs. 14,15. — Hendrickx 1996: 9, fig. 10 (extensive synonymy). — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 60. — Guzmán & Wicksten 2000: 927, fig. 2. — Hendrickx & Wicksten 2003: 57; 2004: 139.

Diagnosis. Similar to B. tanneri but carapace without hepatic spine. Last segment of third maxilliped with 1 strong spine, 4–5 spinules. Abdominal somite 4 with slight dorsal carina, somite 5 with posterior dorsal carina, somite 6 with strong dorsal carina ending in upturned margin. Telson with 4 pairs lateral spines. Total length 120 mm.

Color in life. Not reported.

Habitat and depth. Continental slopes, usually benthic, 923–4120 m.

Range. Western Pacific from Japan to Fiji, eastern Pacific from San Nicolas I. to Chile, South Atlantic, Indian Ocean off Maldive and Comoro Is. Type locality "between Australia and New Guinea" (Challenger sta. 184) .