Pasiphaea corteziana Rathbun, 1902

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

Pasiphaea corteziana Rathbun, 1902

( Fig. 8I–K)

Pasiphaea corteziana Rathbun, 1902a: 905 ; 1904: 24, fig. 5. — Schmitt 1921: 30, fig. 16. — Word & Charwat 1976: 203. — Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 112. — Wicksten 2002: 133.

Diagnosis. Postfrontal tooth nearly vertical. Carapace with blunt mid-dorsal carina, small branchiostegal tooth (may be blunt or reduced in larger specimens), Y-shaped horizontal carina along branchial region, carina extending posteriorly from antennal region. Pereopods 1, 2 with long, slender chelae. Pereopod 2 with row of spinules along merus. Pereopod 3 slender, pereopod 4 short, with blunt dactyl; pereopod 5 longer, with blunt dactyl. Abdominal somites without middorsal carina. Abdominal somite 6 with small tooth on posterodorsal margin. Telson with dorsal groove, deep posterior notch. Outer uropod longer than inner. Total length to 105 mm. (Diagnosis based on specimens from Velero IV station 11965, off San Nicolas I., California; LACM).

Color in life. Not reported.

Habitat and depth. Pelagic, 1400–1630 m.

Range. Santa Cruz I., San Nicolas I., southern California to Cortez Bank, California. Type locality near Cortez Bank .