Pasiphaea affinis Rathbun, 1902

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 37

Pasiphaea affinis Rathbun, 1902

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Pasiphaea affinis Rathbun, 1902a: 905 ; 1904: 24, fig. 6. — Schmitt 1921: 31, fig. 17. — Word & Charwat 1976: 199. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 111. — Wicksten 2002: 133.

Diagnosis. Postfrontal tooth nearly vertical to angled upward. Carapace not carinated beyond gastric tooth, branchiostegal tooth present, carina extending horizontally posteriorly from antennal region and another Y-shaped carina running posteriorly along branchial regions. Eye large, rounded. Stylocerite reaching cornea of eye, not as long as first segment of antennular peduncle. Scaphocerite exceeding antennular peduncle. Third maxilliped, all pereopods with large, obvious exopods. Pereopods 1, 2 heavy, chelate, apices of fingers of second chela crossing. Merus and ischium of pereopod 2 with sharp spines. Pereopod 3 slender, pereopod 4 reduced, pereopod 5 short. Abdominal somites 2–6 with dorsal carina, sixth somite ending in distal point. Telson with V-shaped notch, with dorsal groove. Male total length 67 mm, female 55 mm.

Color in life. Not reported.

Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 1800 m.

Range. Known only from type locality, near Cortez Bank , California (32˚ 28' 44" N, 119˚ 12' 54"W).