Munida heteracantha Ortmann, 1892

McCallum, Anna W., Ahyong, Shane T. & Andreakis, Nikos, 2021, New species of squat lobsters of the genus Munida from Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 80, pp. 113-152 : 143-145

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https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2021.80.06

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scientific name

Munida heteracantha Ortmann, 1892
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Munida heteracantha Ortmann, 1892 View in CoL

Munida heteracantha Ortmann, 1892: 255 View in CoL , pl. 11 fig. 12, 12i, 12k (type locality: Sagami Bay, Japan). — Baba et al., 2008: 99. — Poore et al., 2008: 19. — McEnnulty et al., 2011: app. 1. — Castro, 2011: 16 Munida sp. MoV 5214. — Poore et al., 2008: 21.

Material examined. Western Australia: NMV J55037 About NMV , ovigerous female (cl 9.4 mm, pcl 6.35 mm), 1 ovigerous female (cl 9.8 mm, pcl 7.2 mm), 4 females (cl 8.3 mm, pcl 5.3 mm to cl 9.3 mm, pcl 6.6 mm), 4 males (cl 6.9 mm, pcl 4.4 mm to cl 10.5 mm, pcl 6.7 mm), 3 juveniles (cl 6.1 mm, pcl 4.1 mm to cl 6.6 mm, pcl 4.5 mm), Ningaloo South, 22° 04.77' S, 113° 47.76' E to 22° 05.238' S, 113° 47.64' E, 201–206 m, SS10/2005/146, 10 December 2005 GoogleMaps ; NMV J55038 About NMV , 1 male (cl 10.7, pcl 7.4 mm), 1 female (cl 7.5 mm, pcl 5.0 mm), SS10/2005/146 ; NMV J55040 About NMV , 1 male (cl 10.5 mm, pcl 7.0 mm), 1 ovigerous female (cl 9.9 mm, pcl 7.1 mm), 1 female (cl 7.6 mm, pcl 5.2 mm), Ningaloo North, 21° 58.704'S 113° 49.2'E to 21° 59.052'S 113° 49.2'E, 170–177 m, SS10/2005/152, 10 December 2005 GoogleMaps .

Genetic data. Not available.

Remarks. Munida heteracantha Ortmann, 1892 has been recorded widely across the western Pacific, including from Queensland, Australia. Our specimens show some variation from the lectotype from Japan described by Macpherson and Baba (1993). The lectotype has a pair of small parahepatic spines, which are absent in all our material. In most of our specimens the distolateral spine of the basal antennular article is slightly longer than the distomesial spine, while in the lectotype the distal spines are subequal. Macpherson and Baba (1993) noted that some specimens of M. heteracantha have 2 small median spines on abdominal somite 3, and half of the specimens here have 1–6 spines. Only three specimens had the P2 attached, and these show the dactyli with 7–8 spines on the flexor margin, compared to only 5 spines in the lectotype.

Munida heteracantha View in CoL is also similar to Munida macphersoni Cabezas, Lin and Chan, 2011 View in CoL , but differs in the length of the supraocular spines, which are very short in M. heteracantha View in CoL (0.34 × rostral length compared to 0.5 in M. macphersoni View in CoL ).

Distribution. Japan, Philippines, and Indonesia, off Central Queensland, New Caledonia, Fiji, 100– 322 m. South-western Australia, 170– 177 m.

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Munididae

Genus

Munida

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Munida heteracantha Ortmann, 1892

McCallum, Anna W., Ahyong, Shane T. & Andreakis, Nikos 2021
2021
Loc

Munida macphersoni

Cabezas, Lin and Chan 2011
2011
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M. macphersoni

Cabezas, Lin and Chan 2011
2011
Loc

Munida heteracantha

Ortmann 1892: 255
1892
Loc

Munida heteracantha

Ortmann 1892
1892
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M. heteracantha

Ortmann 1892
1892
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