Hymenodora gracilis Smith 1886

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Oplophoridae; Hymenodora; Hymenodora gracilis; Antarctic; Baja; Canada; Pacific; Indian; Estrada; Navarrete; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254868; https://zenodo.org/record/5254868

Hymenodora gracilis Smith, 1886 (Fig. 10J–L) Hymenodora gracilis Smith, 1886: 680, pl. 12, fig. 6. — Chace 1940: 175, text fig. 46; 1986: 43, figs. 21 p–t. — Crosnier & Forest 1973: 83, fig. 25a. — Butler 1980: 69. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 115; 1996: 119, fig. 73. — Wicksten 2002: 136. Diagnosis. Similar to H . frontalis except exoskeleton soft, membranous. Rostrum slightly longer than eye, with 4 dorsal, no ventral teeth, apex acute. Carapace with groove running obliquely posteriorly from orbit, with hepatic, branchial branches. Blade, lateral tooth of scaphocerite same length. Telson with 3 pairs anterolateral spines. Total length about 50 mm. Color in life. Bright scarlet to red. Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 300–4730 m, maximum abundance at 1250–2000 m. Range. Oregon to Baja California; off Chile and sub-Antarctic waters of Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Type localitity off New Jersey to Maryland; 40 ˚ 26' 40" N, 67 ˚ 05' 15" W–37 ˚ 12' 20" N, 69 ˚ 36' 00" W. : 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 44 : {"references": ["Smith, S. I. (1886) Report on the decapod Crustacea of the \" Albatross \" dredgings off the east coast of the United States during the summer and autumn of 1884. Preprint, later reprinted in Report of the Commissioner for 1885, United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 13, 605 - 705 (1887).", "Chace, F. A. Jr. (1940) Plankton of the Bermuda oceanographic expeditions. IX. The bathypelagic caridean Crustacea. Zoologica, 25, part 2 (11), 117 - 209.", "Crosnier, A., & Forest, J. (1973) Les Crevetttes Profondes de l ' Atlantique Oriental Tropical. Fauna Tropicale (O. R. S. T. O. M.), 19, 1 - 409.", "Butler, T. H. (1980) Shrimps of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 202, 1 - 280.", "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."]}