Pasiphaea tarda Kroyer 1845

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Pasiphaeidae; Pasiphaea; Pasiphaea tarda; Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254848; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5657B52FFBAB33544D1FABDC9150CB0

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