Munidopsis

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Munidopsis
Temporal range: Campanian–Recent
Munidopsis serricornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Family:
Munidopsidae
Genus:
Munidopsis

Whiteaves, 1874
Type species
Munidopsis curvirostra
Whiteaves, 1874

Munidopsis is a genus of squat lobster. It is the second largest of all the genera of squat lobsters, after Munida, with over 200 species.[1] Its members are mainly found on continental slopes and on abyssal plains.[1] A few fossil species are also known,[2] including specimens from the Campanian (Cretaceous).[3]

Species

The 233 described living species are as follows:[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Keiji Baba; Enrique Macpherson; Gary C. B. Poore; Shane T. Ahyong; Adriana Bermudez; Patricia Cabezas; Chia-Wei Lin; Martha Nizinski; Celso Rodrigues; Kareen E. Schnabel (2008). "Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura—families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1905: 1–220. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1.
  2. ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  3. ^ Rodney M. Feldmann, Dale M. Tshudy & Michael R. A. Thomson (1993). "Memoir of the Palaeontological Society 28". Journal of Paleontology. 67 (supplement to issue 1): 1–41. JSTOR 1315582. {{cite journal}}: |chapter= ignored (help)
  4. ^ Türkay, M. (2012). Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106836 on 2013-01-09
  5. ^ Ahyong S.T. (2013). "Munidopsis kareenae, a new species of seamount squat lobster from New Zealand with a key to the New Zealand species of Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae)". Zootaxa. 3599 (5): 490–494. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3599.5.6. PMID 24614002.

Further reading

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