Glebocarcinus amphioetus (Rathbun, 1898)

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 228-230

Glebocarcinus amphioetus (Rathbun, 1898)

( Fig. 53B, C)

Cancer amphioetus Rathbun, 1898a: 582 . — Rathbun 1904: 175, pl. 6, fig. 3; 1930: 205, pl. 91. — Schmitt 1921: 223, pl. 36, figs. 1, 2. — Johnson & Snook 1927: 378. — Sakai 1965: 105, pl. 48, fig. 1. — Nations 1975: 30, figs. 15AB, 16AB, 30- 7, 30-8. — Word & Charwat 1975: 41.— Garth & Abbott 1980: 604. — Jensen 1995: 29.

Glebocarcinus amphioetus .—Schweitzer & Feldmann 200: 235.

Diagnosis. Carapace smooth, strongly areolated, front with 5 median teeth, median tooth small; anterolateral margins with 9 flat, broadly triangular teeth, tiny tooth 10. Third maxilliped with merus truncated anteriorly. Body not setose. Carpus of cheliped with 2 teeth, one at distal end, second below it on inner angle; hand of cheliped with 1–2 spines on upper margin, 3 longitudinal ridges on outer surface. Pereopods 2–5 stout. Male carapace length 22.2 mm, female 27.5 mm.

Color in life. Reddish brown, lighter beneath; fingers of chelae dark, with color reaching more than half of length of outer margin.

Habitat and depth. On rocks, sand, shells, mud, intertidal to 148 m, usually subtidal.

Range. El Segundo, California to Magdalena Bay , Baja California; Gulf of California, Japan, Korea, and northern China. Type locality "off the Korean coast.”