(Sars, 1879)
Description
Similar to Campylaspis rubicunda but smaller as adult and colour when alive whitish sometimes with a tinge of pink. Pereionites 1 and 2 produced dorsally.
Dactyl of maxilliped 2 with two or three spines. Dactyl of pereiopod 2 shorter than carpus and propodus combined.
No free telson.
Size
Length up to 4 mm.
Ecology
Probably occurs on muddy sand or mud substrates.
Depth range
Down from 5 to 3000 m.
Distribution in the North Sea
Northern North Sea, Skagerrak.
World distribution
Northern Norway to North-West Africa, from the Mediterranean and from the North-West Atlantic, and also doubtfully from South Vietnam.
[After Jones, 1976]