Parapasiphae cristata Smith 1884

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Pasiphaeidae; Parapasiphae; Parapasiphae cristata; Baja; Pacific; Estrada; Navarrete; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254830; https://zenodo.org/record/5254830

Parapasiphae cristata Smith, 1884 (Fig. 8A) Parapasiphae cristata Smith, 1884: 388, pl. V, fig. 3. — Word & Charwat 1976: 193. — Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 81. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 112. — Wicksten 2002: 133. Diagnosis. Rostrum extending to cornea of eye. Dorsal carina of carapace with at most 1 or 2 teeth. Groove along branchial region. Cornea of eye lightly pigmented. Eyestalk terminating in distinct curved tubercle. Exopods of maxillipeds, pereopods heavy, prominent. Pereopods 1, 2 chelate, merus of each with minute spinules. Fingers of chela of pereopod 2 longer than palm. Pereopods 3–5 reduced. Most abdominal somites without carina, somite 4 with dorsal carina ending in posterior tooth. Telson slightly shorter than inner uropod. Total length 86.9 mm. (Diagnosis based on specimen from Velero IV station 10675, off Guadalupe I., Mexico, LACM). Color in life. Not reported. Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 400–2870 m (Krygier & Pearcy 1981). Range. Oregon to Baja California, Mexico; North Atlantic. Type locality off New Jersey. : 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 35 : {"references": ["Smith, S. I. (1884) Report on the decapod Crustacea of the Albatross dredgings off the east coast of the United States in 1881. Report of the Commssioner for 1882, United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries, 10, 345 - 426.", "Word, J. & Charwat, D. (1976) Invertebrates of Southern California Coastal Waters. II. Natantia. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, El Segundo, California. 238 pp.", "Krygier, E. E. & Pearcy, W. G. (1981) Vertical distribution and biology of pelagic decapod crustaceans off Oregon. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 1, 70 - 95.", "Hendrickx, M. E. & Estrada-Navarrete, F. D. (1989) A checklist of the species of pelagic shrimps (Penaeoidea and Caridea) from the eastern Pacific, with notes on their geographic and depth distribution. California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations Report, 30, 104 - 121.", "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."]}