Systellaspis braueri paucispinosa Crosnier, 1987

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 46-47

Systellaspis braueri paucispinosa Crosnier, 1987

( Fig. 11A, B)

Systellaspis braueri paucispinosa Crosnier, 1987: 954 , fig. 3b. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Naverrete 1989: 116; 1996: 125, fig. 77. — Wicksten 2002: 137.

Systellaspis braueri . — Butler 1980: 65. — Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 87.

Diagnosis. Exoskeleton thin, smooth. Rostrum short, triangular, with 11–12 dorsal, 1–4 ventral teeth, anterior third without teeth. Carapace with moderate antennal, branchiostegal teeth, the latter with supporting carina; orbitohepatic, branchial carinae; groove below branchial carina. Eye small, pigmented. Stylocerite shorter than eye. Scaphocerite with lateral tooth, blade about equal in length. Third maxilliped setose, longer than pereopod 1. Exopod of third maxilliped, pereopods about same length, size. Pereopods 1, 2 short, chelate; pereopods 3, 4 long, with simple, slender dactyls, pereopod 5 very short, with blunt dactyl; propodus, merus, ischium of each of last three pereopods with spinules. Abdominal somite 3 with strong posterior dorsal tooth, carina, somite 4 with smaller tooth, carina. Abdominal pleura blunt to rounded. Posterolateral margins of somites 4, 5 with small notch, fifth somite with posterolateral tooth. Telson slightly longer than uropods, with 20–30 lateral spines. Male total length 110 mm. female 138 mm.

Color in life. Deep red to red-brown.

Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 500–2000 m, maximum concentration at 900–2000 m.

Range. North and South Pacific Ocean , Indonesia , Oregon to Central America ;. Type locality east of Japan , 31 ˚ 59' 08" N, 158 ˚ 04' 04' E.