Lebbeus speciosus

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Hippolytidae; Lebbeus; Lebbeus speciosus; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254964; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5657B52FFC4B34A44D1F88BCCF70AD8

Lebbeus speciosus (Urita, 1942) (Fig. 22C) Spirontocaris makarofi speciosa Urita, 1942: 19, fig. 4. Lebbeus possjeticus Kobyakova, 1967: 235, fig. 4. — Wicksten & Méndez 1982: 118. — Wicksten 1990b: 592. Lebbeus speciosus . — Hayashi 1992: 132, figs. 13, 14.— Chace 1997: 52. Diagnosis. Rostrum moderately deep, exceeding apex of antennular peduncle, with 5–7 dorsal teeth, 2 on carapace proper, 3 or 4 ventral teeth. First segment of antennular peduncle with 3 or 4 terminal spines, stylocerite reaching second segment. Carapace with strong supraorbital tooth. Pereopods 1–3 with epipods. Pereopods 3–5 slender, with short, spinose dactyls. Merus of pereopod 3, with 4 spines; pereopod 4, with 3 or 4 spines; pereopod 5, with 1 or 2 spines. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–3 rounded, 4, 5 with small points. Telson with 4 or 5 pairs dorsolateral spines. Total length 32 mm. Color in life . Carapace, abdomen with dark brown bands, telson dark brown, appendages brown, white (Hayashi 1992). Habitat and depth . Rocky shores, subtidal areas, 0–57 m. Range . Hokkaido, Siberia, Bering I., and off San Nicolas I., California. Type locality Sakhalin. 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 pages 89-90