Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico
Author
Kilgour, Morgan J.
Author
Shirley, Thomas C.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3754
4
381
419
journal article
46649
10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3
96aabdb2-1be6-484b-a6aa-34d046a24d01
1175-5326
229435
D6C44F9E-6EF7-411B-8C49-132AA77AB1A5
Munida sanctipauli
Henderson, 1885
Munida sanctipauli
has been reported from
Brazil
to the Gulf of
Mexico
to
Morocco
in depths of
18 to 2360 m
(
Henderson 1885
;
Chace 1942
; de
Saint Laurent 1985
; de Melo-Filho & de
Melo 2001b
). Only three females were measured for
M. sanctipauli
. There were two non-ovigerous females (CW
=
12.3 mm
; the other female was damaged) and a single ovigerous female (CW
=
16.4 mm
, 1835 eggs, average egg diameter was
0.41 mm
). All were collected in the Gulf of
Mexico
in August from
550 m
depth.