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
Munidopsis spinifer
(
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
)
Munidopsis spinifer
has been previously reported as
Galathodes spinifer
(see
Baba
et al.
2008
) with a distributional range from the Caribbean to the Gulf of
Mexico
in depths of
329 to 741 m
(
Milne-Edwards 1880
;
Chace 1942
;
Rice & Miller 1991
). Five specimens were measured but only one female was ovigerous (CW
=
5.8 mm
). All specimens were collected in the Caribbean and the Gulf of
Mexico
in depths of
415 to
741 m
.