Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Anomura) from Mauritanian waters (West Africa), with the description of a new species of Munidopsis
Author
De Matos-Pita, Susana S.
Author
Ramil, Fran
text
Zootaxa
2014
3765
5
418
434
journal article
46402
10.11646/zootaxa.3765.5.2
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Munidopsis curvirostra
Whiteaves, 1874
Munidopsis curvirostra
Whiteaves, 1874
: 212
.—Baba
et al.
2008: 138 (list of references and synonymies).
Material examined
. MAURIT 1107, Stn L04,
1812–1824 m
, 1 ovigerous female
8.6 mm
. MAURIT 0 811, Stn L13, 1808–
1862 m
,
3 males
7.2–8.2 mm
. MAURIT 0 911, Stn L15, 1746–
1749 m
,
1 female
7.1 mm
. MAURIT 1011, Stn L04,
1765–1773 m
, 1 ovigerous female
11.7 mm
, Stn L15, 1747–
1867 m
, 1 ovigerous female
7.6 mm
.
Remarks
. Our specimens agree well with those described for the East Atlantic Ocean by
Selbie (1914)
and Macpherson & Segonzac (2005).
Distribution
. This species is known from
Iceland
to
Mauritania
in the eastern Atlantic and from Davis Straits to North Carolina in the western Atlantic; this species has been also cited at the Lord Howe Ridge, southwest Pacific (
Khodkina 1981
). Its bathymetrical range varies between 329 (
Whiteaves 1874
) and
2430 m
.