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 9779dd63-4aa6-4a61-99c5-b43d7180b001 1175-5326 226306 044B90E3-933D-4F1C-A247-2AF49D3B9AEC 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 .