Jacquinot and Lucas (1853); Rathbun (1930); Retamal (1981).
(武田正倫)
Material examined:
FSFL B2247 (1♂, 1♀-48°05.8′S, 65°07.5′W, 104 m deep; Dec. 27, 1969); B3058 (2♂♂, 1♀-51°01′S, 59°40.2′W, 116 m deep; Dec. 23, 1969); EL874 (1♂-40°06′S, 56°15′W, 155 m deep; June 8, 1978). Breadth of carapace, 4-4.5 cm.
Description:
Carapace subcircular, with its dorsal surface evenly convex; protogastric, metagastric and cardiac regions distinct and separated from branchial regions of both sides by submedian deep furrows, being covered with minute granules; median line of carapace more or less ridged and marked with concentration of granules; frontal, supraorbital and lateral borders of carapace fringed by spinules without interruption; front with a median, elongate triangular tubercle and with a spinule at each lateral end; lateral border of carapace regularly convex throughout its whole length and very indistinctly separated to 4 lobes besides external orbital lobe; in smaller individuals each tooth more or less angulated at its tip. Male chelipeds quite unequal, with the left larger, but both chelipeds are subequal in female; borders fringed with long hairs and spinules; palm and fingers compressed, palm widening distally. Ambulatory legs covered with short setae and fringed with long hairs on anterior borders of meri; each merus short and not extruded from lateral border of carapace; upper surface of carpus with a longitudinal shallow furrow; dactylus longer than propodus.
Distribution:
Restricted to southern South America from off Santa Maria, Uruguay through the Falkland Islands and the Straits of Magellan northward to northern Chile; 5-300 m deep.
Remarks:
Another representative of the genus, P. dextrum (Rathbun) from off the Yucatan Peninsula, 425 m deep, has the carapace distinctly longer than wide, and the indistinct marginal spinules of the carapace.
(Masatsune TAKEDA)
Distribution of Peltarion spinosulum in Patagonia.