Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Anomura) from Mauritanian waters (West Africa), with the description of a new species of Munidopsis
Date
2014-02-20Type
articleKeywords
ChirostyloideaGalatheoidea
Eumunida
Munida
Munidopsis
new species
distribution
deep-waters
Mauritania
Northwest Africa
Abstract
This paper is the result of the study of a squat lobsters collection obtained along the Mauritanian coast, between 91 and
1867 m depth, during the ‘MAURIT’ surveys carried out in the period from 2007 to 2010. Eumunida bella de Saint Laurent
& Macpherson, 1990 (Chirostyloidea) and six species of Munida and Munidopsis (Galatheoidea) are reported in the
present work.
A new species, Munidopsis anaramosae n. sp. collected off northwestern Banc d’Arguin at 1000–1012 m depth, is
described and illustrated. The presence of an eyespine that arises distally from the middle end of the cornea, walking legs
merus spinose on dorsal and ventral margins and cheliped merus ventrally unarmed distinguish it from related species.
Munida chunii Balss, 1913 is redescribed here and the new records of Munida guineae Miyake & Baba, 1970, M. speciosa
von Martens, 1878 and Munidopsis chunii Balss, 1913 extend their geographical distribution northwards, and in the case
of the last species, increase its ...
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