Discorsopagurus schmitti ( Stevens, 1925 )

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 179

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1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255196

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scientific name

Discorsopagurus schmitti ( Stevens, 1925 )
status

 

Discorsopagurus schmitti ( Stevens, 1925) View in CoL

( Fig. 41C, D)

Pylopagurus schmitti Stevens, 1925: 298 View in CoL , figs. 17–22.

Orthopagurus schmitti . — Stevens 1927: 249, figs. 2–4.

Discorsopagurus schmitti View in CoL . — McLaughlin 1974: 354, figs. 96, 97. — Hart 1982: 118, fig. 41. — Gherardi & McLaughlin 1995: 258, figs. 1–10. — Jensen 1995: 62, fig. 111.

Diagnosis. Rostrum triangular, longer than lateral projections of carapace. Eyestalk relatively long, stout; cornea slightly dilated. Major cheliped setose, with scattered spines, granules on carpus and hand; inner margin of palm serrate with large, sharp teeth, outer margin with row of spines. Minor cheliped more slender; carpus, hand with spines, sharp granules. Pereopods 2, 3 slender, setose; dactyl shorter than propodus. Abdomen straight, with pleopods on left side only. Telson with lateral margins rounded, with 4 short teeth on each side of distolateral margin. Uropods developed on both sides, upper uropod longer, with prominent rasp. Carapace length to 6 mm.

Color in life. Chelipeds creamy, mottled with red-brown, apice of fingers red-brown; pereopods 2, 3 banded with cream; red-brown; antennae and eyestalk marked with red-brown. Hart (1982) gave an extensive description of the living color.

Habitat and depth. Usually subtidal; low intertidal zone to 220 m, inhabiting worm tubes (families Sabellidae and Serpulidae ).

Range. Japan, Sitka Sound , Alaska to near Albion, Mendocino County, California. Type locality off Point Caution, Washington .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Paguridae

Genus

Discorsopagurus

Loc

Discorsopagurus schmitti ( Stevens, 1925 )

Wicksten, Mary K. 2012
2012
Loc

Discorsopagurus schmitti

Jensen, G. C. 1995: 62
Hart, J. F. L. 1982: 118
McLaughlin, P. A. 1974: 354
1974
Loc

Orthopagurus schmitti

Stevens, B. 1927: 249
1927
Loc

Pylopagurus schmitti

Stevens, B. 1925: 298
1925
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