Heptacarpus decorus

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Hippolytidae; Heptacarpus; Heptacarpus decorus; San Juan; Canada; Pacific; Archipelago; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254949; https://zenodo.org/record/5254949

Heptacarpus decorus (Rathbun, 1902) (Fig. 20D) Spirontocaris decora Rathbun, 1902a: 896; 1904: 79, fig. 33. — Schmitt 1921: 61, fig. 38. Heptacarpus decorus. — Holthuis 1947: 12. — Kozloff 1974: 167. — Word & Charwat 1976 b: 113. — Butler 1980: 214, pl. 7C. — Standing 1981: 779. — Wicksten 1990b: 594. — Chace 1997: 44. Diagnosis. Rostrum exceeding antennular peduncle, with 4 or 5 dorsal, 4–8 ventral teeth. Second, third segments of antennular peduncle with spine each, stylocerite reaching at most to end of first segment. Third maxilliped with epipod. Pereopods without epipods. Pereopod 1 with particularly stout chela. Pereopods 3–5 slender, with spinose dactyls. Merus of pereopod 3, with 3–5 spines; pereopod 4, with 4 spines; pereopod 5, with 3 or 4 spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–4 rounded, 5 with ventral point. Telson with 4–7 pairs dorsolateral spines. Male total length 33 mm, female 60 mm. Color in life. Watery pink, with patterns of small red spots on body, appendages (Butler 1980). Habitat and depth. Benthic, 22–313 m. Range . Gabriola I., Strait of Georgia, Alaska to San Diego, California. Type locality off Santa Cruz I., California. : 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 81 : {"references": ["Rathbun, M. J. (1902 a) Descriptions of new decapod crustaceans from the west coast of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 24, 885 - 905.", "Rathbun, M. J. (1904) Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, 10, 1 - 219.", "Schmitt, W. L. (1921) The marine decapod Crustacea of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, 23, 1 - 470.", "Holthuis, L. B. (1947) The Decapoda of the Siboga expedition Part IX: the Hippolytidae and Rhynchocinetidae. Siboga Expeditie, 39 a (8), 1 - 100.", "Kozloff, E. N. (1974) Keys to the Marine Invertebrates of Puget Sound, the San Juan Archipelago, and Adjacent Regions. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 226 pp.", "Word, J. & Charwat, D. (1976) Invertebrates of Southern California Coastal Waters. II. Natantia. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, El Segundo, California. 238 pp.", "Butler, T. H. (1980) Shrimps of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 202, 1 - 280.", "Standing, J. D. (1981) Occurrences of shrimps (Natantia: Penaeidea and Caridea) in central California and Oregon. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 94, 774 - 786.", "Wicksten, M. K. (1990 b) Key to the hippolytid shrimp of the eastern Pacific Ocean. United States Fishery Bulletin, 88, 587 - 598.", "Chace, F. A. Jr. (1997) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910, Part 7: families Atyidae, Eugonatonotidae, Rhynchocinetidae, Bathypalaemonellidae, Processidae, and Hippolytidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 587, 1 - 106."]}