Pagurus capillatus

• Main Author: Wicksten, Mary K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Paguridae; Pagurus; Pagurus capillatus; Bering Sea; Chukchi; Chukchi Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255211; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5657B52FF24B3AB44D1FF5EC944089D

Pagurus capillatus (Benedict, 1892a) (Fig. 42H, I) Eupagurus capillatus Benedict, 1892a: 8. Pagurus capillatus . — Holmes 1900: 138. — Rathbun 1904: 157, pl. 4, fig. 3. — Schmitt 1921: 132, fig. 85. — Makarov 1962: 208, pl. 3, fig. 2. — McLaughlin 1974: 93, figs. 22, 23. — Hart 1982: 154, fig. 59. — Wicksten 1989b: 314. — Lemaitre & Castaño 2004: 77. Diagnosis . Rostrum low, about as long as lateral projections of carapace. Eyestalk long, slender; cornea slightly dilated, ocular s pointed. Major cheliped setose, dorsal surface with spines, mesial margin with serrate margin, outer margin with low teeth, fingers slender. Minor cheliped setose; carpus with proximal row of dorsal spines, scattered larger distal spines; hand with rows of spinules, row of small spines on dactyl, fingers slender. Pereopods 2, 3 slender, setose; carpi of first legs serrate on dorsal margins; dactyls longer than propodi, with ventral spines. Telson asymmetrical, with lateral notches, terminal concavity, terminal teeth. Uropods asymmetrical. Carapace length to 26 mm. Color in life. Ground color whitish. Chelipeds with merus having bands of rose, brown; carpus with apricot spines and mottling of brown, red; hand light brown, fingers with apricot apices. Pereopods 2, 3 with ischium splotched with pink, red and yellow; merus banded in red and brown, carpus and propodus each with 2 bands, dactyl greenish yellow. Eyestalk with outer rose stripe, inner brown stripe, cornea black with gold flecks. Antennal flagellum translucent. In life, color often obscured by silt on setae (Hart 1982). Habitat and depth. Muddy subtidal areas, 4–439 m. Range. Northwestern Pacific, Chukchi Sea; Bering Sea to off Santa Cruz, California. Type locality Norton Sound, Alaska. 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 185