Pasiphaea magna Faxon, 1893

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 38-39

Pasiphaea magna Faxon, 1893

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Pasiphaea magna Faxon, 1893: 24 ; 1895: 176, pl. 45, fig. 2. — Word & Charwat 1976: 207. — Méndez 1981: 64, figs. 190–192. — Krygier & Pearcy 1981:81. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 11; 1996: 91, figs. 56, 57. — Wehrtmann & Carvacho 1997: 50. — Guzmán & Wicksten 1998: 205. — Wicksten 2002: 134.

Diagnosis. Anterior margin of carapace forming blade-shaped tooth. Carapace with dorsal carina extending along entire midline, small knob above eyestalk, small branchiostegal tooth, Y-shaped carina running horizontally from antennal region nearly to posterior margin. Stylocerite longer than eye. Scaphocerite with lateral tooth exceeding blade. Third maxilliped shorter than first pereopod, setose. Pereopods 1, 2 chelate, long, pereopod 1 shorter than pereopod 2, chelae slender carpus of pereopod 2 with distal spine. Pereopod 3 slender and thread-like, pereopod 4 very short, with blade-shaped dactyl; pereopod 5 longer than pereopod 4 but shorter than pereopod 3, with bladeshaped dactyl. All abdominal somites with dorsal carina, but carina faint on first somite. Telson with truncate margin ending in spinules, with dorsal groove, shorter than uropods. Total length 145 mm.

Color in life. Bright red.

Habitat and depth. Mostly pelagic, 700–1000 m, rarely taken in benthic trawls.

Range. Oregon to northern Chile. Type locality Gulf of Panama .