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
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Munidopsis abdominalis
(
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
)
Munidopsis abdominalis
has previously been reported as
Elasmonotus abdominalis
(see
Baba
et al.
2008
). It ranges from
French Guiana
to the Gulf of
Mexico
in depths of
357 to 720 m
(
Chace 1942
;
Takeda 1983
). Three males (CW from
6.1 to 8.6 mm
) and one ovigerous female (CW
=
7.9 mm
) of
M. abdominalis
were present in the collections; these specimens were from the Caribbean and the Gulf of
Mexico
in depths of
417 to
543 m
.