Janetogalathea californiensis ( Benedict, 1902 )

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 145-146

Janetogalathea californiensis ( Benedict, 1902)

( Fig. 34A, Pl. 7A)

Galathea californiensis Benedict, 1902: 247 , fig. 1. — Schmitt 1921: 164, fig. 104. — Wicksten 1982: 245. — Wicksten 1987: 55; 1989b: 315.

Janetogalathea californiensis . — Baba & Wicksten 1997: 38, figs. 1–3. — Hendrickx & Harvey 1999: 375. — Macpherson et al. 2010: 234.— Hendrickx et al. 2011: 89, figs. 1, 2.

Diagnosis. Rostrum more than twice as long as eye, broad, flattened dorsoventrally, armed with one pair lateral spines, one pair basal spines. Carapace with 6 lateral spines, most anterior of these largest; dorsal surface with transverse ridges, pair of well developed epigastric spines. Chelipeds with thorn-like spines; fingers of chela with rows of small teeth along cutting edges. Pereopods 2–4 with spines on merus, carpus, dactyls short, stout. Abdomen without spines. Carapace length to 31.3 mm.

Color in life. Reddish on much of surface, carapace with white transverse stripes along main transverse ridges, white background on pereopods. The color ntoes are from a specimen from Monterey Bay , California .

Habitat and depth. Among rocks and sponges, 87– 376 m. Hendrickx et al. (2011) could find no verified report of the species at 3990 m, the maximum depth given for this species previously ( Schmitt 1921).

Range. Monterey Bay , California to off Guadalupe I., Mexico; central Gulf of California. Type locality off Santa Cruz I., California (Albatross sta. 2946) .

Remarks. This craylet has been taken in baited traps.