Galacantha rostrata A. Milne-Edwards 1880
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Galacantha rostrata A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
Galacantha rostrata has been reported previously as Munidopsis rostrata and is cosmopolitan (Baba et al. 2008) in depths of 1600 to 3800 m (de Saint Laurent 1985; Macpherson 2007). We analyzed specimens from the Caribbean to the east coast of the United States in depths of 1288 to 3145 m. Specimens were collected in June, July, and August; ovigerous specimens were not collected (Fig. 12 A). Four males (CW from 16.2 to 21.8 mm) and six non-ovigerous females (CW from 9.2 to 22.9 mm) were measured. Males were not significantly larger than females (t-test, df = 8, t = 1.653, p = 0.137); however this result is not consistent with previous reports, where ovigerous females were significantly larger than males and females (Wenner 1982). The lack of ovigerous females most likely affected this analysis.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Galatheidae
- Genus
- Galacantha
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- A. Milne-Edwards
- Species
- rostrata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Galacantha rostrata Milne-Edwards, 1880 sec. Kilgour & Shirley, 2014
References
- Milne-Edwards, A. (1880) Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, etc. VIII. Etudes preliminaries sur les Crustaces. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 8, 1 - 168.
- Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Poore, G. C. B., Ahyong, S. T., Bermudez, A., Cabezas, P., Lin, C., Nizinski, M., Rodrigues, C. & Schnabel, K. E. (2008) Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura-families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa, 1905, 1 - 220.
- de Saint Laurent, M. (1985) Remarques sur la distribution des crustaces decapodes. In: Laubier, L. & Monniot, C. (Eds.), Peuplements profonds du Golf de Gascogne campagnes BIOGAS. Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, France, pp. 469 - 478.
- Macpherson, E. (2007) Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae). Zootaxa, 1417, 1 - 135.
- Wenner, E. L. (1982) Notes on the distribution and biology of Galatheidae and Chirostylidae (Decapoda: Anomura) from the Middle Atlantic Bight. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 2, 360 - 377. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1548053