Acanthacaris tenuimana - Biological Information System for Marine Life

Body and legs covered by numerous small spines. Eyes reduced and lacking pigments of cornea. Chelae elongated; palm almost cylindrical; fingers distinctly longer than palm; cutting edges of chela bearing pectinate teeth.

Distribution, biogeography

Indo-West pacific: Natal, Mozambique; Madagascar: Laccadive Islands; Japan (Southwest of Kyushu); Philippines: South China Sea: Indonesia: eastern Australia: New Caledonia (Griffin & Stoddart, 1995; Takeda & Nagai, 2004).

Depth

600-2,161 m depth (Griffin & Stoddart, 1995; Takeda & Nagai, 2004).

Size

Over 400 mm in total length at maximum (Takeda & Nagai, 2004).

Ecology, physiology

Considered to live in burrows of muddy bottom of deep waters.

Acanthacaris tenuimana Bate, 1888 of literature

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Chan, T. Y. (2010) Annotated checklist of the world's marine lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 23, 153-181.

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Fujikura, K., Okutani, T. and T. Maruyama (2012) Deep-sea life —Biological observations using research submersibles: Second Edition. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, Japan, 487 pp. (in Japanese).

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Griffin, D. J. G. and H. E. Stoddart (1995) Deep-water decapod crustacea from eastern Australia: lobsters of the family Nephropidae, Palinuridae, Polychelidae and Scyllaridae. Records of the Australian Museum 47: 231-263.

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Holthuis, L. B. (1991) Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. Volume 13. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 292 pp.

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Takeda, M. and S. Nagai (2004) Four species of giant crustaceans from the Indonesian depths, with description of a new species of the family Lithodidae. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology), 30(1), 9-21.

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