Solenocera mutator Burkenroad, 1938

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 26

Solenocera mutator Burkenroad, 1938

( Fig. 5K–M)

Solenocera mutator Burkenroad, 1938: 6 , figs. 2–5. — Anderson & Lindner 1943: 288. — Méndez 1981: 57, pl. 21, figs. 169–171. — Wicksten 1988: 241. — Hendrickx 1996: 126, fig. 64. — Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997: 182. — Wicksten & Hendrickx 2003: 59.

Diagnosis. Rostrum about as long as eye, with 7 dorsal, no ventral teeth, acute apex.

Carapace with postorbital, antennal, pterygostomian teeth, grooves near base of rostrum, cervical groove. Stylocerite about as long as eye. Antennular flagellum flattened. Stylocerite with tapered apex. Third maxillipeds long, slender. All pereopods with exopods. Pereopods 1–3 shorter than pereopods 4,5, chelate; pereopods 4,5 very slender with simple dactyls. Pleura of abdominal somites 1–3 rounded, pleura of somites 4,5 with acute distolateral margins, sixth ending in small distolateral spine. Telson shorter than uropods. Total length 42.5– 61 mm.

Color in life. Not reported.

Habitat and depth. Sand or mud, 11–190 m.

Range. Off Santa Barbara Point, California to Lobos de Tierra I., Peru . Type locality southern Baja California, Mexico .