Gennadas sordidus Kemp, 1910

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 24

Gennadas sordidus Kemp, 1910

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Gennadas sordidus Kemp, 1910: 177 , pl. 13, fig. 13. — Anderson & Lindner 1943: 291. — Ebeling et al. 1969: 12. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 107; 1996: 34, fig. 19. — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 66. — Guzmán & Wicksten 2000: 929. — Wicksten 2002: 130.

Diagnosis. Rostrum short, with one dorsal tooth, acute apex. Carapace with blunt antennal angle, sharp infraantennal angle, small branchiostegal tooth. Cervical, post-cervical grooves separated on dorsal midline by distance equal to 0.2 times distance from post-cervical groove to posterior margin of carapace. Mid-dorsal carina inconspicuous posterior to post-cervical groove. Scaphocerite 3 times as long as wide and terminating in small tooth, blade exceeding lateral tooth. Pereopod 1 chela as long as carpus, chela of pereopod 2, 0.66 times length of carpus; chela of pereopod 3, 0.5 times length of carpus. Abdominal somite 6 with dorsal carina. Apex of telson truncate, with 4 or 5 pairs plumose setae. Petasma with distinctive spoon-shaped portion directed forward from middle of distal margin of each lobe. Male total length to 24 mm, female not reported.

Color in life. Bright red, with blue spots on appendages.

Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 0–915 m.

Range. Indian Ocean, San Pedro Basin, California to Revillagigedo Is.; Gulf of California , Chile . Syntypes came from off Laccadive Is. and northeast of Ceylon ( Sri Lanka) .