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 latifrons
(
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
)
Munidopsis latifrons
has previously been reported as
Galathodes latifrons
(
Baba
et al.
2008
)
. Its reported range is from the Caribbean to the Gulf of
Mexico
in depths of
677 to 1107 m
(
Milne-Edwards 1880
;
Chace 1942
). Four specimens were available: two females (CW was
4.3 mm
and
5.3 mm
) and two ovigerous females (CW was 4.0 mm and
4.6 mm
). All specimens came from the same locality off the Atlantic coast of Florida from
805 m
in the month of May; eggs were neither counted nor measured.