Allosergestes pestafer ( Burkenroad, 1937 )

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 27-28

Allosergestes pestafer ( Burkenroad, 1937)

( Fig. 6A–E)

Sergestes pestafer Burkenroad, 1937: 318 , figs. 1–3. — Ebeling et al. 1969: 12. — Hendrickx & Navarrete 1989: 109; 1996: 56, fig. 36. — Pérez Farfante & Kensey 1997: 197.

Allosergestes pestafer . — Judkins & Kensley 2008: 75.

Diagnosis. Carapace with supraorbital tooth, hepatic spine. Distal articles of antennular peduncle long, slender, shorter than basal segment. Third maxilliped long, basally swollen, ultimate segment shorter than penultimate, both with many spines on 1 side but few on other; dactyl with 5 subsegments, inner margin of antepenultimate subsegment with 8 spines in male, 11–12 in female. Ischium of pereopods 1, 2 with spine on outer margin. Carpus of first legs shorter than propodus. Pereopods 2, 3 minutely chelate, fixed finger shorter than mobile finger, palm with longitudinal series of long setae. Precoxa of pereopod 3 of female with spur. Pereopod 5 with distal 2 segments setose on both margins. Telson with terminal point, 1 pair dorsolateral spinules. External uropods with setose margin 1.5 times length of area without setae, without tooth or spinule. Total length 37 mm.

Color in life. Partly transparent, with red chromatophores mostly on cephalothorax.

Habitat. Pelagic to 1100 m.

Range. Off Santa Catalina I. , California (Velero IV sta. 8031-62) , outer coast of Baja California, to Galapagos

Is. Type locality north of Clarion I., Mexico (20 ˚ 36' N, 115 ˚ 7' W).