. Bulletin. Science. 204 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Fig. 2. Plesionika carinirostris, scale bars = 5 mm. a, Lateral perspective, the rostrum, lost sub- sequent to collection, is illustrated with dashed lines. All but 1st pereopod detached from specimen and not figured, b, 2nd pereopod, illustrating the subdivision of the carpus into 26 articles, c, Dorsal, movable carapace spines. Plesionika carinirostris Hendrickx, 1990 Figure 2 a, b, c Plesionika carinirostris Hendrickx, 1990:38-39, Figs. 2, 3 Plesionika carinirostris: Hendrickx, 1995:481 Type locality.—Off Isla San Lorenzo, Gu
. Bulletin. Science. 204 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Fig. 2. Plesionika carinirostris, scale bars = 5 mm. a, Lateral perspective, the rostrum, lost sub- sequent to collection, is illustrated with dashed lines. All but 1st pereopod detached from specimen and not figured, b, 2nd pereopod, illustrating the subdivision of the carpus into 26 articles, c, Dorsal, movable carapace spines. Plesionika carinirostris Hendrickx, 1990 Figure 2 a, b, c Plesionika carinirostris Hendrickx, 1990:38-39, Figs. 2, 3 Plesionika carinirostris: Hendrickx, 1995:481 Type locality.—Off Isla San Lorenzo, Gulf of California, Mexico. Material examined.—Off the Palos Verdes Peninsula, California, in the north arm of the San Pedro Sea Valley: 1 specimen, CSDLAC Station VI50 (33°'N, 118°'W), 145 m depth, 29 June 1999. Remarks.—Plesionika carinirostris was previously known only from the type material, a single male collected in the central Gulf of California. While Hen- drickx (1995) lists the holotype as a female (hembra), the type description clearly indicates it as male. The new record off Palos Verdes suggests a range through the southern Gulf of California and along the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Hendrickx (1990, 1995) remarks on the large size of the type specimen (110 mm total length, 21 mm carapace length). The Palos Verdes specimen is a gravid female and also of large size. Since the rostrum was broken before measurement, the total length is estimated at 122 mm (25 mm carapace length). The color in life, previously undescribed, is dull scarlet blotches on a translucent white ground. The antennae are solid scarlet, while the remaining appendages are nearly all white, without contrasting color on the legs. The entire oral field of the animal is bright scarlet, the remainder of the ventrum unpigmented. The egg mass is lav- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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