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
Anomoeomunida caribensis
(
Mayo, 1972
)
Anomoeomunida caribensis
was previously reported as
Phylladiorhynchus caribensis
from the Caribbean in depths of
11 to 38 m
(
Mayo 1972
). Only four males and two ovigerous females were in collections. One female was
3.9 mm
(CW) and had
17 eggs
with an average egg diameter of
0.36 mm
. The other female was
3.4 mm
(CW) and had
183 eggs
with an average diameter of
0.47 mm
. All specimens were collected in June from the southern Gulf of
Mexico
.