Lebbeus, CARINATUS, WHITE, 1847

Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4), pp. 445-522 : 470-471

LEBBEUS ‘ CARINATUS ’ DE SAINT LAURENT, 1984

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, EPR, 12°49′N, 103°56.3′W ; 2620 m.

Known range: Known only from the type locality ( de Saint Laurent, 1984: 355, de Saint Laurent, 1997, in Desbruyères & Segonzac, 1997).

Material: type locality; BIOCYATHERM; dive 35; 12 March 1982; MNHN-B 5617 (holotype female) ( de Saint Laurent, 1984) .

Remarks: De Saint Laurent (1997, in Desbruyères & Segonzac, 1997: 197) noted that the species named by her in 1984 will have to be renamed, as another species of Lebbeus was named L. carinatus eight years earlier by Zarenkov (1976). The information given here thus refers to de Saint Laurent’s species, and not to the ‘true’ L. carinatus named earlier by Zarenkov (1976). De Saint Laurent’s species differs markedly from Zarenkov’s (1976) species of the same name (as well as from Lebbeus washingtonianus ) in lacking an epipod on the third pereopod ( T. Komai, pers. comm.). However, there are also problems with Zarenkov’s (1976) original Lebbeus carinatus description. It is based on a single damaged specimen that is ‘apparently very close, if not identical to L. washingtonianus ’ ( Hashimoto, 1997, in Desbruyères & Segonzac, 1997). Fransen (1997) redescribed in detail all three species described originally by Zarenkov ( L. bidentatus , L. carinatus and L. curvirostris ) based on the original type material.