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Munida compressa Baba 1988

Description

Munida compressa Baba, 1988

Munida compressa Baba, 1988: 91, figs 33, 34 (type locality: Moluccas, Indonesia). — Baba et al., 2008: 91. — Baba et al., 2009: 152, figs 130–134. — Poore et al., 2011: pl. 16H (colour).

Material examined. Western Australia: NMV J55980, 1 male (cl 21.2 mm, pcl 13.0 mm), Kulumburu L 29 transect, 13° 13.482' S, 123° 23.742'E to 13° 13.338' S, 123° 23.286' E, 392 m, SS05/2007/176, 5 July 2007; NMV J55981, 4 males (cl 12.0 mm, pcl 8.2 mm; cl 18.6 mm, pcl 12.1 mm), Ashmore L30 transect, 12° 28.884' S, 123° 25.062' E to 12° 29.958' S, 123° 25.002' E, 397–405 m, SS05/2007/189, 6 July 2007.

Genetic data. 16S and COI; see Table 1.

Remarks. This is the first record of the Munida compressa from Australia. Sequences from our material and a specimen from the Solomon Islands (Machordom and Macpherson, 2004) were 0.2% divergent for COI and invariant for 16S.

Distribution. Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Arafura Sea, 180– 668 m. North-west Australia, 392– 405 m.

Notes

Published as part of McCallum, Anna W., Ahyong, Shane T. & Andreakis, Nikos, 2021, New species of squat lobsters of the genus Munida from Australia, pp. 113-152 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 80 on page 141, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2021.80.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12214129

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMV
Material sample ID
J55980 , J55981
Event date
2007-07-05 , 2007-07-06
Verbatim event date
2007-07-05 , 2007-07-06
Scientific name authorship
Baba
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Munididae
Genus
Munida
Species
compressa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Munida compressa Baba, 1988 sec. McCallum, Ahyong & Andreakis, 2021

References

  • Baba, K. 1988. Chirostylid and galatheid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) of the " Albatross " Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910. Researches on Crustacea, Special Number 2: 1 - 203.
  • Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Poore, G. C. B., Ahyong, S. T., Bermudez, A., Cabezas, P., Lin, C. - W., Nizinski, M., Rodrigues, C. and Schnabel, K. E. 2008. Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa, 1905: 1 - 220.