Odontozona spongicola ( Alcock & Anderson, 1899 )

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 34

Odontozona spongicola ( Alcock & Anderson, 1899)

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? Richardina spongicola Alcock & Anderson, 1899: 291 .

Richardina spongicola . — Alcock 1899: pl. 42, figs. 4, 4a.

Odontozona spongicola . — Holthuis 1946: 40. — Wicksten 1982c: 134. — Goy 1992: 2, fig. 1C.

Odontozona ? spongicola . — Wicksten 1989b: 311.

Diagnosis. Rostrum reaching end of antennular peduncle, with 6 dorsal and 4 ventral spines. Carapace with 3 teeth on anterior border, spines at base of rostrum, row of teeth at cervical groove, 2 hepatic spines. Eye without pigment, eyestalk with spinules. Scaphocerite with spinules. Third maxillipeds about as long as first pereopods. Pereopods 1–3 chelate, the third stronger, heavier than anterior two pairs. Pereopods without spines except for spinules on merus, carpus of pereopod 3. Pereopods 4, 5 having dactyls with 2 strong hooks. Abdominal somites smooth, rounded. Telson and outer uropod with spinules. Total length 17.2 mm.

Color in life. White to yellowish.

Habitat and depth. Symbiotic with deep-sea hexactinellid sponges, 496–900 m.

Range. Indian Ocean , northern Australia, Santa Catalina Is. , California. Type locality Andaman Sea .

Remarks. One dredged specimen of Odontozona spongicola has been collected in California. The host sponge species was not reported.