Munidopsis echinata

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Munidopsis echinata
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M. echinata
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Munidopsis echinata
Osawa, Lin & Chan, 2008

Munidopsis echinata is a species of squat lobster, first found in deep waters off Taiwan. M. echinata is similar to , but differs by lacking an antennal spine on its carapace and having a rather longer antennal peduncle.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Chan, Tim-Yam; Osawa, Masayuki; Lin, Chia-Wei (2008). "Especies de Galacantha y Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) de las aguas profundas frente a Taiwan, con la descripción de dos nuevas especies". Scientia Marina. 72 (1). doi:10.3989/scimar.2008.72n137. ISSN 1886-8134.

Further reading[]

  • Osawa, Masayuki, Chia-Wei Lin, and Tin-Yam Chan. "Additional records of Chirostylus and Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheoidea) from Taiwan." The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 19 (2008): 91-98.
  • Macpherson, Enrique. 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). Magnolia Press, 2007.
  • Baba, Keiji, and Gary CB Poore. "Munidopsis (Decapoda, Anomura) from south-eastern Australia." Crustaceana 75.3 (2002): 231-252.

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