Argis levior

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Crangonidae; Argis; Argis levior; San Juan; Canada; Pacific; Admiralty Inlet; Shelter Cove; Archipelago; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255020; https://zenodo.org/record/5255020

Argis levior (Rathbun, 1902) (Fig. 27B) Nectocrangon levior Rathbun, 1902a: 892; 1904: 143, figs. 86, 87. — Zarenkov 1965: 1764. Argis levior . — Kozloff 1974: 164. — Wicksten 1976: 56, fig. 1.— Butler 1980: 89. Diagnosis. Rostral tooth short. Carapace with 3 dorsal teeth posterior to rostral tooth, branchiostegal, pterygostomian teeth, hepatic tooth on each side. Eye small, partly concealed by hood. Antennular peduncle not as long as scaphocerite. Lateral tooth of scaphocerite slightly exceeding blade. Distal segment of third maxilliped flattened, with exopod. Pereopod 1 subchelate, dactylus closing obliquely against propodus. Pereopod 2 slender, chelate. Pereopod 3 slender, dactylus slender, acute. Pereopods 4, 5 stout, dactyls flattened. Abdominal somites 1–4 without carinae, somite 5 weakly carinate, somite 6 with 2 dorsal carinae; pleura rounded except for weak posterolateral point on fourth pleuron. Telson about as long as uropods, with 3 pairs dorsolateral spines, acute apex. Female total length 47 mm, male not reported. Color in life. Not reported. Habitat and depth. Sand, boulders and shell, 18–77 m. Range. Aleutian Is. to Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California. Type locality Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound. : 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 108 : {"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.", "Zarenkov, N. A. (1965) Revision of the genera Crangon Fabricius and Sclerocrangon G. O. Sars (Decapoda, Crustacea). Zoologischeskii Zhurnal, 44, 1761 - 1775. (Translation from Russian by Fisheries Research Board of Canada Translation Service, 1465, year 1970).", "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.", "Wicksten, M. K. (1976) First record of Argis levior (Rathbun) from California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 75, 56.", "Butler, T. H. (1980) Shrimps of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 202, 1 - 280."]}