Pasiphaea tarda Kroyer 1845

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Pasiphaeidae; Pasiphaea; Pasiphaea tarda; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Pacific; Estrada; Navarrete
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254848; https://zenodo.org/record/5254848

Pasiphaea tarda Kröyer, 1845 (Fig. 9 J–N) Pasiphaea tarda Kröyer, 1845: 434. — Butler 1980: 56. — Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 79. — Baba et al . 1986: 99, fig. 58. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 112; 1996: 96, fig 60. — Wicksten 2002: 134. Diagnosis . Exoskeleton thin. Postfrontal tooth extending forward as blade-like extension of carapace. Carapace with middorsal carina extending along entire dorsal midline, with small branchiostegal tooth supported by short carina, Y-shaped carina along branchial region but not reaching posterior margin, slight carina dorsal to Y-shaped carina. Stylocerite longer than eye. Scaphocerite with lateral tooth exceeding blade. Pereopods 1, 2 particularly stout, heavy, both with spinules on merus. All abdominal somites with distinct dorsal carina. Telson with dorsal groove, V-shaped posterior notch, not as long as uropods. Male total length 152 mm, female 215 mm. Color in life. Crimson (Baba et al . 1986: fig. 58). Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 0–2400 m, usually at 200–2000 m (Krygier & Pearcy 1981). Range. Arctic to Hokkaido, Japan; Unalaska to Ecuador, Arctic to Greenland in Atlantic. Type locality off Greenland. : 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 39 : {"references": ["Kroyer, H. (1845) Karcinologiske Bidrag (Fortsaettelse). Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, n. ser. 1, 453 - 638.", "Butler, T. H. (1980) Shrimps of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 202, 1 - 280.", "Krygier, E. E. & Pearcy, W. G. (1981) Vertical distribution and biology of pelagic decapod crustaceans off Oregon. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 1, 70 - 95.", "Baba, K., Hayashi, K. & Toriyama, M. (1986) Decapod Crustaceans from Continental Shelf and Slope around Japan. Tokyo: Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association (Tokyo), 336 pp.", "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."]}