New records and new species of the munidopsine squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae: Munidopsinae) from Australia

Abstract

Nine species of Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784, and one species of Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae) are reported from the continental shelf of Australia. Two species are new to science, M. comarge sp. nov. and M. vesper sp. nov. Munidopsis vesper is presently known only from Western Australia, but M. comarge ranges from Western Australia to New Zealand. Six species are reported for the first time from Australian waters, G. subspinosa Macpherson, 2007, M. andamanica MacGilchrist, 1905, M. crenatirostris Baba, 1988, M. hirsutissima Balss, 1913, M. levis (Alcock & Anderson, 1894) and M. nitida (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880). A range extension within Australia is reported for M. dasypus Alcock, 1894 and M. kensleyi Ahyong & Poore, 2004. These new records expand the number of Munidopsis species previously recorded from Australian waters from 15 to 22 and the number of Galacantha species from three to four. A key and illustrated guide to the species now known from Australia is provided.

Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Anomura) from Mauritanian waters (West Africa), with the description of a new species of Munidopsis

“…Within the superfamily Galatheoidea, the taxonomic effort deployed during the last years has increased the 242 species of Munida (family Munididae) recognized by , with the description of an additional 28 new species (Macpherson 2009;Cabezas et al 2009;Hendrickx & Parente 2010;Cabezas et al 2011;Komai 2011a, b;Komai 2012). Similarly with Munidopsis (family Munidopsidae), eight new species were recently described, raising to 232 the total number of valid species Osawa et al 2008;Taylor et al 2010;Macpherson 2011;Komai 2011c;Ahyong 2013 and M. thieli Türkay, 1975(Anadón 1981 were previously reported in this area. This paper is based on the study of a collection of squat lobsters gathered during the four Ecosystem Surveys Munidopsis ramahtaylorae Pequegnat & Pequegnat, 1971, M. spinoculata (A. Milne Edwards, 1880 and M. subspinoculata Pequegnat & Pequegnat, 1971 were recorded from the Atlantic Ocean but none of them have spines on the dorsal and ventral margins of the P2-4 carpus.…”

A new species of Munidopsis from a seamount of the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge (Decapoda: Munidopsidae)

“…Macpherson 2007;Cubelio et al 2008) and eastern basin (e.g. Poore et al 2008;Taylor et al 2010), although a large number of species still remains undescribed (Appeltans et al 2012). Wood and whale bone colonisation experiments were deployed by RV Dr. Fridtjof Nansen on the Atlantis Bank (32°42.71S, 57°16.31E), a seamount of the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge at a depth of ca.…”

A new species of Munidopsis (Anomura, Galatheoidea, Munidopsidae) from the Gulf of California, western Mexico

“…Even after having been separated from the other "galatheoids", the Munidopsidae remains a very speciose family with about 270 species in four genera: Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880; Leiogalathea Baba, 1969;Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874;andShinkaia Baba &Williams, 1998 (MacPherson, 2007;Baba et al, 2008;Ahyong et al, 2010;Taylor et al, 2010). The vast majority of these species belong to the genus Munidopsis.…”