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Munida mexicana Benedict 1902

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Munida mexicana Benedict, 1902

Munida mexicana Benedict, 1902: 264, fig. 13. — Hendrickx 1993a: 7 (list); 1993b: 309 (table); 1996: 616 (list); 2000: 175, figs. 7, 8. — Hendrickx & Harvey 1999: 375 (list). — Baba 2005: 268 (list). — Fierro et al. 2008: 6 (list). — Baba et al. 2008: 106 (list).

Material examined. TALUD XIV. St. 32 (27°56'13"N, 111°19'44"W), 11 Apr 2011, 3 ovig. females (CL 3.9–4.3 mm; CLr 4.7–6,3 mm), 122–123 m, benthic sledge (EMU-8944).

Fecundity. One ovigerous female from St. 32 is 4.7 mm CLr, the smallest size reported so far for this species. Females carry ca 150– 200 eggs per female. Egg size, 0.44–0.53 mm (based on 20 eggs).

Remarks. Munida mexicana has been reported by Hendrickx (2000) as a common and abundant species on the continental shelf of the Gulf of California, in depth from 30 to 102– 110 m (maximum known depth: 145 m; Benedict 1902).

Ecology. Epibenthic values of temperature (13.7 °C) and dissolved oxygen (2.77 ml O2/l) (Table 1) fit well within the known range reported for this species (Hendrickx 2003).

Notes

Published as part of Hendrickx, Michel E., 2012, Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea) collected during the TALUD XIV cruise in the Gulf of California, Mexico, and rediscovery of Gastroptychus perarmatus (Haig, 1968) in the eastern Pacific, pp. 28-40 in Zootaxa 3418 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210510

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Benedict
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Galatheidae
Genus
Munida
Species
mexicana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Munida mexicana Benedict, 1902 sec. Hendrickx, 2012

References

  • Benedict, J. E. (1902) Description of a new genus and forty six new species of crustaceans of the family Galatheidae, with a list of the known marine species. Proceeding of the United States National Museum, 26, 243 - 334.
  • Hendrickx, M. E. (1993 a) Crustaceos Decapodos Bentonicos del Sur de Sinaloa, Mexico. Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 64 (1), 1 - 16.
  • Hendrickx, M. E., & Harvey, A. W. (1999) Checklist of anomuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 129 (2), 327 - 352.
  • Baba, K. (2005) Deep-sea Chirostylid and Galatheid Crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) from the Indo-Pacific, with a list of species. Scientific Results of the Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World 1950 - 52. Galathea Reports, 20, 1 - 317.
  • Fierro Rengifo, M., Navas Suarez, G. R., Bermudez Tobon, A. & Campos Campos, N. H. (2008) Lista de chequeo de las familias Galatheidae y Chirostylidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) del Neotropico. Biota Colombiana, 9 (1), 1 - 20.
  • Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Poore, G. C. B., Ahyong, S. T., Bermudez, A., Cabezas, P., Lin, C. - W., Nizinski, M., Rodriguez, C. & Schnabel, K. E. (2008) Catalogue of squat lobsters of the World (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura- families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae. Zootaxa, 1905, 1 - 220.
  • Hendrickx, M. E. (2000) The genus Munida Leach (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) in the eastern tropical Pacific, with description of two new species. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 70, 163 - 192.