Oplophoridae Dana 1852

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Oplophoridae; Pacific; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254849; https://zenodo.org/record/5254849

Family Oplophoridae Dana, 1852 Most oplophorids are pelagic, often with a thin carapace and bright orange to red color. The toothed rostrum varies from short to long. The carapace may bear teeth and carinae. Some species also have teeth on the dorsal midline of the abdominal somites. Eyes may be pigmented or not. Pereopods 1, 2 are chelate and shorter than pereopods 3–5. The maxillipeds and pereopods bear exopods. Little is known about most oplophorids of the area of coverage. Systellaspis debilis (Milne-Edwards, 1881) produces a luminous cloud. Other species have photophores (light-producing cells). Traps being brought up to the surface have captured oplophorids, suggesting that they were scavenging on the bait. Species of Notostomus and Systellaspis may feed on pelagic cnidarians such as jellyfishes of the genus Atolla (Moore et al . 1993). Many oplophorid species are thought to be nearly cosmopolitan or at least in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The key given here is based on the work by Chace (1986), which provides additional descriptive information, especially of Indo-West Pacific species. Ebeling et al . (1969: 12) reported Notostomus elegans A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (as N . patentissimus Bate, 1888) from the San Pedro Basin, California, but this is believed to be an Indo-West Pacific species (Crosnier & Forest 1973). : 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 41 : {"references": ["Milne-Edwards, A. (1881) Description de quelques Crustaces Macroures provenant des grandes profoundeurs de la Mer des Antilles. Annale s des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie (Paris), ser. 6, 11 (4), 1 - 16.", "Moore, P. G., Rainbow, P. S. & Larson, R. J. (1993) The mesopelagic shrimp Notostomus robustus Smith (Decapoda: Oplophoridae) observed in situ feeding on the medusan Atolla wyvillei Haeckel in the northwest Atlantic, with notes on gut contents and mouthpart morphology. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 13, 690 - 696.", "Chace, F. A. Jr. (1986) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910, Part 4: Families Oplophoridae and Nematocarcinidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 432, 1 - 82.", "Bate, C. S. (1888) Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by the H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Reports of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Challenger Zoology, 24, 1 - 942.", "Crosnier, A., & Forest, J. (1973) Les Crevetttes Profondes de l ' Atlantique Oriental Tropical. Fauna Tropicale (O. R. S. T. O. M.), 19, 1 - 409."]}