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Munidopsis dasypus Alcock 1894

Description

Munidopsis dasypus Alcock, 1894

(Fig. 2A)

Munidopsis dasypus Alcock, 1894: 329. — Baba et al., 2008: 139 (compilation). — Baba et al., 2009: 225, fig. 203. — Taylor et al., 2010: 10, figs. 3, 5F. — Komai, 2011: 21, figs. 8–10. — Osawa et al., 2013: 263, figs. 8H, I, 11D–G.

Type locality. Andaman Sea, 1,027 m.

Material examined. 1 female, 14.3 mm cl (MZB Cru 5289), Sunda Strait, Northwest of Rakata Island, Indonesia, 6°02.737′S – 6°03.229′S, 105°11.107′E – 105°10.642′E, 928–929 m, stn CP05, 24 March 2018; 1 ovigerous female, 19.3 mm cl (MZB Cru 5290), Sunda Strait, between Sumatra & Java, Indonesia, 6°10.758′S – 6°11.587′S, 105°05.589′E – 105°05.735′E, 1060–1073 m, stn CP18, 26 March 2018; 1 ovigerous female, 24.7 mm cl (MZB Cru 5291), Sunda Strait, South of Panaitan Island, Indonesia, 6°46.739′S – 6°45.924′S, 105°09.239′E – 105°08.360′E, 559– 571 m, stn CP23, 27 March 2018; 1 female, 17.4 mm cl (MZB Cru 5292), Sunda Strait, South of Panaitan Island, Indonesia, 6°50.185′S – 6°50.923′S, 105°10.353′E – 105°10.776′E, 876– 937 m, stn CP25, 27 March 2018; 2 males, 9.4–21.2 mm cl (MZB Cru 5293), Indian Ocean, South of Cilacap, Indonesia, 8°10.065′S – 8°09.802′S, 108°37.439′E – 108°37.145′E, 1013– 970 m, stn CP44, 31 March 2018; 1 male, 14.0 mm cl, beam trawl (RCO CRU 5065), Indian Ocean, South of Pameungpeuk, Indonesia, 7°47.972′S – 7°48.257′S, 107°45.298′E – 107°45.706′E, 530– 476 m, CP47, 1 April 2018.

Colouration. Ground colour of carapace, cheliped, P1–4 and abdominal segments orange. Uropods and telson whitish.

Distribution. Off NE South Africa, Andaman Sea, Arabian Sea, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia; depth 214–2,217 m.

Notes

Published as part of Widyastuti, Ernawati, Lin, & Chia-Wei, 2021, Deep-sea squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae, Munididae and Munidopsidae) from the SJADES 2018 biodiversity cruise, pp. 105-118 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 36 on page 113, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2021-0034, http://zenodo.org/record/20255217

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZB , RCO
Material sample ID
CRU 5065
Scientific name authorship
Alcock
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Munidopsidae
Genus
Munidopsis
Species
dasypus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Munidopsis dasypus Alcock, 1894 sec. Widyastuti, Lin & Chia-Wei, 2021

References

  • Baba K, Macpherson E, Poore GCB, Ahyong ST, Bermudez A, Cabezas P, Lin, C-W, Nizinski M, Rodrigues C & Schnabel K (2008) Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa, 1905: 1-220.
  • Baba K, Macpherson E, Lin C-W & Chan TY (2009) Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan: Squat Lobsters (Chirostylidae and Galatheidae). National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, 311 pp.
  • Taylor J, Ahyong ST & Andreakis N (2010) New records and new species of the munidopine squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae: Munidopsinae) from Australia. Zootaxa, 2642: 1-18.
  • Komai T (2011) Records of squat lobsters of the family Munidopsidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea) from the Sagami Sea and adjacent areas, Central Japan, with descriptions of two new species. Natural History Researches, 11 (2): 11-35.
  • Osawa M, Lin C-W & Chan TY (2013) Munidopsidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the Philippines collected by the PANGLAO 2005 and AURORA 2007 expeditions. In: Chan TY, Corbari L, Ahyong ST & Ng PKL (eds.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, volume 27. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 204: 231-286.