Sergia japonica

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Plantae; Tracheophyta; Magnoliopsida; Asterales; Campanulaceae; Sergia; Sergia japonica; New Zealand; Pacific; Perez; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254820; https://zenodo.org/record/5254820

Sergia japonica (Bate, 1881) (Fig. 7B–D) Sergestes japonicus Bate, 1881: 194. Sergestes ( Sergia ) japonicus . — Crosnier & Forest 1973: 341, figs. 113c, 117 (extensive synonymy). Sergia japonicus . — Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 76. — Flock & Hopkins 1992: 214. Sergia japonica . — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 200. — Wicksten 2002: 131. Diagnosis. Similar to S . tenuiremis except rostrum short, blunt. Eyestalk long, overreaching stylocerite; cornea small. Carapace with cervical groove reaching from middorsal surface to lateral groove, lateral groove divided posterior to cervical groove with dorsal section extending nearly to posterior of carapace, ventral groove ending short of ventral margin. Telson as long as endopod of uropods. Female total length about 75 mm. Color in life. Not reported. Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 0–1000 m but usually deeper than 500 m. Taken at 850–1000 m off Oregon. Range. Japan to Philippines, New Zealand, off British Columbia and Oregon, Newfoundland to Gulf of Mexico, west of Scotland to off Angola, Mediterranean. Type locality "south of Japan.” : Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 31 : {"references": ["Bate, C. S. (1881) On the Penaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5, 169 - 196.", "Crosnier, A., & Forest, J. (1973) Les Crevetttes Profondes de l ' Atlantique Oriental Tropical. Fauna Tropicale (O. R. S. T. O. M.), 19, 1 - 409.", "Krygier, E. E. & Pearcy, W. G. (1981) Vertical distribution and biology of pelagic decapod crustaceans off Oregon. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 1, 70 - 95.", "Flock, M. E., & Hopkins, T. L. (1992) Species composition, vertical distribution, and food habits of the sergestid shrimp assemblage in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 12, 210 - 223.", "Perez Farfante, I. & Kensley, B. (1997) Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Memoires du Museum national d ' Histoire naturelle (Paris), 175, 1 - 223.", "Wicksten, M. K. (2002) Midwater decapods of the northeastern Pacific. In: Hendrickx, M. E. (Ed.) Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans. Vol. 1. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D. F., pp. 127 - 144."]}