Pinnixa scamit Martin & Zmarzly, 1994

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 255

Pinnixa scamit Martin & Zmarzly, 1994

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Pinnixa scamit Martin & Zmarzly, 1994: 354 , figs. 1, 2. — Campos-Gonzalez et al. 1998: 378, fig. 5. — Campos-Gonzalez 2007: 646.

Diagnosis. Carapace twice as wide as long, highly sculptured, with anterolateral ridge bearing pronounced, slightly anteriorly-curved teeth; frontal margin with deep median cleft; cardiac ridge present and granular. Chelipeds slightly dimorphic, left larger. Fixed finger slightly deflexed, its length nearly half of length of palm. Dactyl, fixed finger each with pronounced tooth at approximately midlength, row small transparent teeth merging distally into sharp ridge along cutting edges. Palm with scattered short setae, granules on outer surface, serrate ridge on dorsal border. Carpus, merus with acute teeth on dorsolateral, dorsodistal surfaces. Pereopods 2–5 long, slender. Each pereopod with row of well developed teeth on dorsal, ventral borders of merus, carpus, propodus. Dactyls more or less straight. Pereopod 4 longest, its propodus with ventral margin bearing two ridges. Carapace width 7.4 mm.

Color in life. Not reported.

Habitat and depth. Slime-clay bottom, 27–48 m, 3ll m. Commensal associations unknown, but specimens from Todos Santos Bay taken in samples with numerous polychaetes ( Campos-Gonzalez et al. 1998).

Range. Western Santa Barbara Channel , SSW of Point Arguello , California (type locality) and Todos Santos Bay, Baja California, Mexico .

Remarks. This species is included in the key to intertidal pinnotherids of central California and Oregon by Campos (2007), but there are no records of the crab north of Point Arguello.