Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae)
Author
Published, First
text
Zootaxa
2007
2007-03-08
1417
1
135
journal article
11755334
Munidopsis pycnopoda
Baba, 2005
Munidopsis pycnopoda
Baba, 2005: 176
, fig. 84.
Material examined
.
Mozambique
Channel, BENTHEDI, Stn 82, 3450 m: 2 M
8.8–9.4 mm
, 1 ovig. F
9.7 mm
(MNHN-Ga1582).
Remarks
. The species was recently described from
three specimens
collected near
Mozambique
. The material examined from the same area agrees quite well with the original description. The sternite
3 in
the present material is more bilobate than in the original description. No other differences were noted.
Distribution
. Know from the
Mozambique
Channel, at
3450–3485 m
.