Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea) collected during the TALUD XIV cruise in the Gulf of California, Mexico, and rediscovery of Gastroptychus perarmatus (Haig, 1968) in the eastern Pacific Author Hendrickx, Michel E. text Zootaxa 2012 3418 28 40 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.210510 426a533b-0045-4718-9975-73b67da34528 1175-5326 210510 Munidopsis depressa Faxon, 1893 Munidopsis depressa Faxon, 1893 : 189 ; 1895: 96, pl. XXII, figs 2, 2a, 2b. — Benedict 1902 : 319 . — Haig 1956 : 79 . — Luke 1977 : 28 (catalogue). — Wicksten 1989 : 315 (list). — Hendrickx & Harvey 1999 : 376 . — Hendrickx 1993b : 310 (table); 2011: 100, fig. 2; 2003b: 23. — Baba 2005 : 282 (key), 288 (list). — Fierro et al. 2008 : 7 (list). — Baba et al. 2008 : 140 (list). Material examined. TALUD XIV. St. 3 ( 28°16'03"N , 112°17'40"W ), 7 Apr 2011 , 3 males (CL 10.6–12.4 mm ; CLr 14.7–16.3 mm ), 914–925 m , benthic sledge (EMU-9279). Remarks. Previously known from off California and from the Gulf of California (from ca 26°N south to off Tres Marias Islands). The present record extends the northernmost limit of M. depressa in the Gulf of California by over two degrees of latitude, to ca 28°16’N . The recorded depth range of M. depressa in the Gulf of California is from 780 to 1300 m , just below the OMZ (Hendrickx 2003). As noted by Hendrickx & Serrano (2010) , deep-water species occurring below the OMZ off western Mexico are unable to migrate to shallow water due to the physiological barrier formed by the OMZ and they form a distinct community, with no representative of the continental shelf community.