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(
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFF2CFAF6D0BC7864" box="[151,410,1298,1321]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Orophorhynchus nitidus</emphasis>
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880: 59
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.
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFF2CFAD6D08B7804" box="[151,429,1330,1353]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Orophorhynchus spinosus</emphasis>
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880: 58
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[
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Henderson, 1885: 414
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[
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locality: off Admiralty Islands,
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Wood-Mason
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locality: Bay of Bengal,
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).
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFF2CFA76D08C78E4" box="[151,426,1426,1449]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Munidopsis subsquamosa</emphasis>
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. — Ahyong &amp; Poore, 2004: 59 [Queensland specimens only; not
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFBD3FA76D43A78E4" box="[1128,1308,1426,1449]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. subsquamosa</emphasis>
Henderson, 1885
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<taxonomicName id="4C4F4D2842405D6FFF2CFA36D07E78A4" box="[151,344,1490,1513]" class="Malacostraca" family="Galatheidae" genus="Munidopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitida">
<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFF2CFA36D07E78A4" box="[151,344,1490,1513]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Munidopsis nitida</emphasis>
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. — Baba, 2005: 158, 291, figs 72, 73. — Macpherson 2007: 85.
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, QUEENSLAND: AM P67839,
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), E of Cape York,
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,
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, beam trawl,
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(FR0688-13), RV
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, coll. P. Hutchings
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.
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locality.
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFF7EF949D0677B8A" bold="true" box="[197,321,1709,1735]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Remarks.</emphasis>
Ahyong &amp; Poore (2004) reported
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Henderson, 1885
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, from eastern
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based on a juvenile from New South
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and three damaged adults from north Queensland. Reexamination of the specimens revealed that the north Queensland specimens are referrable to
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFAB9F91CD44B7A5C" box="[1282,1389,1784,1809]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. nitida</emphasis>
(A. Milne-Edwards, 1880)
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, constituting the first confirmed record of the species from Australian waters.
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFF2CF8A7D0557A11" box="[151,371,1859,1884]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Munidopsis nitida</emphasis>
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is readily distinguished from
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by the presence of a serrate crest on the ventral margin of the pollex (crest absent in
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFD13F88CD2497ACC" box="[680,879,1896,1921]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. subsquamosa</emphasis>
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) and the presence of two eye spines instead of one. Unfortunately, the Australian specimens of
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFD62F869D2607AEB" box="[729,838,1933,1958]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. nitida</emphasis>
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lack chelipeds, although the eye spines are intact.
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFF2CF857D05C7A81" box="[151,378,1971,1996]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Munidopsis nitida</emphasis>
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also closely resembles
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFD1EF857D2017A81" box="[677,807,1971,1996]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. verrilli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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locality: off San Diego), with most obvious distinguishing feature being the length of the chelipeds (cheliped overreached by pereopod
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942405D6FFA97F83CD4BA7ABC" box="[1324,1436,2008,2033]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">M. nitida</emphasis>
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versus pereopod 2 almost reaching end of cheliped in
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942435D6CFCA0FF7CD2B37DFC" box="[795,917,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. verrilli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Specimens of
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942435D6CFBE3FF7CD5E37DFC" box="[1112,1221,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. nitida</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
lacking chelipeds could be easily mistaken for
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942435D6CFE40FF59D35F7D9B" box="[507,633,189,214]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. verrilli</emphasis>
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, though it can be recognised by the presence of an epipod on the cheliped coxa (absent in
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942435D6CFE77FF06D36D7DB6" box="[460,587,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. verrilli</emphasis>
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) and the presence of distal spines of antennal article 3 (absent in
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<emphasis id="B93BEAB942435D6CFAC7FF06D1CE7C6C" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">M. verrilli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C355652042435D6CFF7EFEC9D0A37CFA" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BF036AB42435D6CFF7EFEC9D0A37CFA" blockId="14.[151,1437,152,439]" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
<emphasis id="B93BEAB942435D6CFF7EFEC9D04F7C0A" bold="true" box="[197,361,301,327]" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Distribution.</emphasis>
Widely distributed in the eastern and western Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. In the Indo-Pacific, ranging from
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and
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to the Bay of Bengal,
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, the
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, northern
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, the
<collectingCountry id="F358763B42435D6CFE06FE9CD3B47CDF" box="[445,658,376,402]" name="Solomon Islands" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Solomon Islands</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F358763B42435D6CFD1BFE9CD2437CDF" box="[672,869,376,402]" name="New Caledonia" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F358763B42435D6CFCC9FE9CD29F7CDF" box="[882,953,376,402]" name="Japan" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Japan</collectingCountry>
and the Gulf of
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;
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(Macpherson 2007).
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