. Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America ... Crustacea -- North America. than in N. ovifer, and the anterior margin (against which the dactylus fits) in consequence more longitudinal. The first and second abdominal segments are without a carina; that on the thii-d and fourth segments is rather feebly developed. Dimensions. — Male, length 31 mm., length of carapace ^.6 mm. Type locality fathoms [Albatross station 3664) Additional localities.—Off Santa Cruz Island, CaHfornia, 155 fathoms, station 2949; south of Santa CataHna Island, 59 fathoms, station 3665 (specimen 39 mm.


. Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America ... Crustacea -- North America. than in N. ovifer, and the anterior margin (against which the dactylus fits) in consequence more longitudinal. The first and second abdominal segments are without a carina; that on the thii-d and fourth segments is rather feebly developed. Dimensions. — Male, length 31 mm., length of carapace ^.6 mm. Type locality fathoms [Albatross station 3664) Additional localities.—Off Santa Cruz Island, CaHfornia, 155 fathoms, station 2949; south of Santa CataHna Island, 59 fathoms, station 3665 (specimen 39 mm. long). Fig. 81. N'ec- tocrajigon cali- forniensis (X Off Santa Catalina Island, Cahfornia, 80 3|)- station ' ' 3664. a. Acicle. b. Chela. NECTOCRANGON ALASKENSIS Kingsley. Nectocrangon alasketisis Kingsley, Bull. Essex Inst., xiv, 128, 1882. Female.—Three equidistant spines on the median carina, and between these and the spine on the anterior margin there is usually a small spinei Lateral carina scarcely traceable. Antennal spine large. Spine of an-. FlG. 82. Nectocrangon alaskensis. $ (X ij). «. Dorsal view of carapace and abdomen. Station 2869. b. Side view. Station 2868. tennal scale overreaching the blade. Hands of first pair of feet about four and a half times as long as wide, anterior margin longitudinally oblique. Sternal crest in the male armed with slender spines. First to fourth abdominal segments smoothly rounded; fifth having a ^ sharp median crest ending posteriorly in a sharp spine, and a spine at the postero-inferior angles; sixth segment with two sharp crests terminating in small spines; the posterior margin has also a large supero-lateral spine, and a small infero-lateral gon alasken- cnine sis. * (X *^ 286 a'^Aci" -^/^/^.—Smaller than the female. The spine at the antero- Chela, lateral angle is much longer than in the female, considerably overlapping the, antennal scale. The scale is a little longer also. The. Please note that these image


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