Species Stereomastis sculpta Smith, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polycheles sculptus Smith, S.I. 1880. Notice of a new species of the `Willemoesia group of Crustacea' (recent Eryontidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 2: 345-353 pl. 7 [346 pl. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 39957 ♂, off the coast of Nova Scotia, south-east of Sable Island, NW Atlantic [43°10'N 61°20'W].
• Pentacheles spinosus Milne Edwards, A. 1880. No. 1. Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877, '78, '79, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake". Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., Commanding. VIII. Etudes préliminaires sur les Crustacés. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 8(1): 1-68 pls 1-2 [66].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCZ 2974 2 specimens, West of Tortugas, off Dominica, off Guadeloupe; MCZ 2795 1 specimen; MCZ 3076 1 specimen.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Alcock, A. 1901. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Indian Deep-sea Crustacea Decapoda Macrura and Anomura in the Indian Museum. Being a revised account of the deep-sea species collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship "Investigator". Calcutta : Indian Museum Vol. 4 286 pp. 3 pls. [170]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide distribution. Recorded from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, including the Mediterranean Sea, and widely distributed in the Indo-West pacific, including Vanuatu, New Zealand and Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Bathyal, benthic, continental rise, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

From 200–4000 m depth.

 

General References

Galil, B.S. 2000. Crustacea Decapoda: Review of the genera and species of the family Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 184: 285-387 [340-346]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2012		29-Mar-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		01-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
		25-Aug-2010	MODIFIED