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
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1175-5326
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Munida nuda
Benedict, 1902
Munida nuda
has been reported from the Caribbean and Gulf of
Mexico
in depths of
68 to 346 m
(
Benedict 1902
;
Chace 1942
). We analyzed specimens collected in the Gulf of
Mexico
and Caribbean in depths of
250 to 630 m
, which is a bathymetric extension. Specimens were collected in March and June; ovigerous specimens were collected in June (
Fig. 9
D). Four males (CW from 2.4 to 6.0 mm) and three non-ovigerous females were measured (CW from
2.9 to 3.9 mm
); only two ovigerous females were in the collection for
M. nuda
and neither was in condition to be measured.