Rhithropanopeus harrisii ( Gould, 1841 )

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 242

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scientific name	Rhithropanopeus harrisii ( Gould, 1841 )
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Rhithropanopeus harrisii ( Gould, 1841) View in CoL

(Pl. 14B)

Pilumnus harrisii Gould, 1841: 326 .

Rhithropanopeus harrisii View in CoL . — Rathbun 1898b: 273; 1930: 456, pl. 183, figs. 7, 8. — Garth & Abbott 1980: 610, fig. 25.27. — Williams 1984: 401, figs. 316-317. — Ricketts et al. 1985: 296. — Jensen 1995: 18, fig. 5. — Kuris et al. 2007: 642.

Diagnosis (after Williams 1984). Carapace subquadrate, about as long as wide, sparsely pubescent toward anterolateral angles, lines of granules across carapace. Front almost straight, slightly notched.First anterolateral tooth fused with postorbital angle, followed by 2–3 other anterolateral teeth. Chelipeds unequal. Carpus with moderately developed internal tooth. Major chela with short fixed finger, strongly curved dactyl. Minor chela with proportionately longer fixed finger, long straight dactyl. Pereopods 2–5 long, slender, compressed, somewhat setose. Male carapace length 15.6 mm, female carapace length 12.4 mm.

Color in life. Brown to pale gray or yellowish above, pale below; fingers of chelae light-colored throughout their length. The color notes are from crabs from various locations in Texas.

Habitat and depth. Rocks, oyster shells, or debris, often in estuarine areas, intertidal zone to 36.6 m, but usually shallow.

Range. Native to southwestern Gulf of St. Lawrence , Canada to Veracruz , Mexico; introduced into parts of Europe and San Francisco and Coos Bays on west coast of U.S.A. Type locality Cambridge Marshes and Charles River , Massachusetts .

References

Garth, J. S. & Abbott, D. (1980) Brachyura: the true crabs. In: Morris, D., Abbott, D. & Haderlie, E. (Eds). Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 594 - 630.

Gould, A. A. (1841) Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida and Radiata. Folsom, Wells and Thurston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 373 pp.

Jensen, G. C. (1995) Pacific Coast Crabs and Shrimps. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California, 87 pp.

Kuris, A. M., Sadeghian, P. & Carlton, J. T. (2007) Keys to Decapod Crustacea. In: Carlton, J. T. (Ed.) The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates Central California to Oregon. University of California Press, Berkeley, 4 th ed., pp. 636 - 656.

Rathbun, M. J. (1898 b) The Brachyura of the Biological Expedition to the Florida Keys and the Bahamas in 1893. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa, 4, 250 - 294.

Rathbun, M. J. (1930) The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 152, 1 - 593.

Ricketts, E. F., Calvin, J., Hedgpeth, J. W. & Phillips, D. W. (1985) Between Pacific Tides. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 5 th ed., 652 pp.

Williams, A. B. (1984) Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 550 pp.