Pentacheles validus

Author
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

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Min Depth
914 meters
Max Depth
3365 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Worldwide, except polar regions?
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • soft substrate?
  • deep sea
References

  • Firth, R. W., Jr., and W. E. Pequegnat. 1971. Deep-sea Lobsters of the Families Polychelidae and Nephropidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. A&M Project 700-15, Reference 71-11T. Texas A&M University Department of Oceanography, College Station.

  • Galil, B. S. 2000b. Crustacea Decapoda. Review of the genera and species of the family Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. Pp. 285–387 in A. Crosnier, ed. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 21. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 184, Paris.

  • Pequegnat, W. E., L. H. Pequegnat, R. W. Firth, Jr., B. M. James, and T. W. Roberts. 1971. Gulf of Mexico Deep-Sea Fauna, Decapoda and Euphausiacea. Folio 20: Serial Atlas of the Marine Environment. American Geographical Society, New York.

  • Wicksten, M., and J. M. Packard. 2005. A qualitative zoogeographic analysis of decapod crustaceans of the continental slopes and abyssal plain of the Gulf of Mexico. Part I, Deep-Sea Research 52: 1745–1765.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-03-2024.

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