Bentheogennema pasithea ( de Man, 1907 )

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 22

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254791
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scientific name	Bentheogennema pasithea ( de Man, 1907 )
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Bentheogennema pasithea ( de Man, 1907) View in CoL

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Gennadas pasithea de Man, 1907: 146 View in CoL .

Bentheogennema pasithea View in CoL . — Anderson & Lindner 1943: 295. — Ebeling et al. 1969: 12. — Crosnier 1978: 31, figs. 13c, d. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 106. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1996: 18, fig. 6. — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 129. — Guzmán & Wicksten 2000: 927. — Wicksten 2002: 129.

Diagnosis. Similar to B. borealis except small tubercle on dorsal midline posterior to rostrum. Cervical, postcervical grooves approaching each other on dorsal surface, interrupting mid-dorsal carina. Petasma with smaller accessory lobe, without terminal hook. Thelycum with rectangular-rounded plates on sixth, eighth thoracic sternites. Telson with 1–3 pairs terminal-lateral spines.Total length 41 mm.

Color in life. Red with blue spots on appendages.

Habitat and depth. Pelagic, below 1000 m.

Range. Indo-West Pacific, off Santa Catalina I. , California (Velero IV sta. 10696-65, LACM) south to Dowd Tablemount (13 ˚ 9' N, 119 ˚ 48' W) off western Mexico ; Chile . Type locality "off Indonesia.”