Munida militaris Henderson, 1885

Ahyong, Shane T. & Poore, Gary C. B., 2004, Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia, Zootaxa 472 (1), pp. 1-76 : 41

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.472.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5246045

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scientific name

Munida militaris Henderson, 1885
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Munida militaris Henderson, 1885

Munida militaris Henderson, 1885: 410 (part) [type locality: off Matuku, Fiji]; 1888: 137 (part), pl. 14: figs. 2, 2a–b, 5, 5a–b. — Baba & Macpherson, 1991: 539, fig. 1. — Macpherson, 1994: 496, 499.

Munida vitiensis Henderson, 1885: 410 [type locality: off Matuku , Fiji].

Type material. QUEENSLAND: AM P31538, 2 males (21.0– 26.1 mm), 1 female (23.6 mm), NE of Tweed Heads , 28º03’S, 154º04’E, 732 m, K78­23­08, 6 Nov 1978 GoogleMaps ; AM P42261, 1 male (22.6 mm), NE of Tweed Heads , 27º55–57’S, 154º03’E, 549 m, trawl, K78­23­09, 6 Nov 1978.

Remarks. The specimens agree well with the redescription of the type material given by Baba & Macpherson (1991). One specimen (male 26.1 mm, AM P31538) is infected by a bopyrid isopod under the left posterior portion of the carapace.

Distribution. Indonesia, Fiji, New Caledonia and now from southern Queensland, Australia; 183–731 m ( Macpherson, 1994, this work).

AM

Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Galatheidae

Genus

Munida

Loc

Munida militaris Henderson, 1885

Ahyong, Shane T. & Poore, Gary C. B. 2004
2004
Loc

Munida militaris

Macpherson, E. 1994: 496
Baba, K. & Macpherson, E. 1991: 539
Henderson, J. R. 1885: 410
1885
Loc

Munida vitiensis

Henderson, J. R. 1885: 410
1885
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