Bentheogennema burkenroadi Krygier & Wasmer, 1975

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 20

Bentheogennema burkenroadi Krygier & Wasmer, 1975

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Bentheogennema burkenroadi Krygier & Wasmer, 1975: 737 , figs. 1–3. — Butler 1980: 43. — Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 76. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 106. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1996: 16, fig. 5 (extensive synonymy). — Pérez Farfante & Kensley, 1997: 58. — Wicksten 2002: 129.

Diagnosis. Similar to B. borealis except small tubercle on dorsal carina posterior to rostrum. Cervical, postcervical grooves approaching each other closely on middorsal midline, interrupting middorsal carina. Third maxilliped with strong spine on last segment. Petasma with characteristic large accessory lobe, with terminal hook in adult. Thelycum with pentagonal plate on eighth thoracic sternite, elevated triangular plate on sixth sternite. Telson with pair movable spines. Total length 59–66 mm.

Color in l ife. Deep to medium red, small flecks of purple on third maxilliped, pereopods, ventral surfaces of abdominal somites, bases of pleopods.

Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 0–2000 m, most abundant between 100–500 m.

Range. British Columbia to Seamount 350 (23 ˚ 5.4' N, 124 ˚ 56.9' W) off Baja California and mid-North Pacific. Type locality west of British Columbia (51 ˚ 26' N, 128 ˚ 28' W).