Some species of Munidopsis from the Gulf of Mexico, Florida Straits and Caribbean Sea (Decapoda: Munidopsidae), with the description of two new species

12 páginas, 5 figuras. During two cruises to the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, some specimens of squat lobsters belonging to the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (family Munidopsidae Ortmann, 1898) were collected. The present collection comprises five species, where two are considered as new spe...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zootaxa
Main Authors: Macpherson, Enrique, Beuck, Lydia, Freiwald, André
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Magnolia Press 2016
Subjects:
Anomura
Atlantic Ocean
Taxonomy
Deep-water corals
Loewe
Macpherson
New Zealand
Lophelia pertusa
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/135181
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4137.3.7
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Summary:12 páginas, 5 figuras. During two cruises to the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, some specimens of squat lobsters belonging to the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (family Munidopsidae Ortmann, 1898) were collected. The present collection comprises five species, where two are considered as new species: M. karukera, closely related to M. ariadne Macpherson, 2011, from the Mediterranean Sea; and M. tuerkayi, which resembles M. kareenae Ahyong, 2013, from New Zealand. The specimens were caught at six stations between 522 and 1162 m; some were associated with live cold-water corals, such as Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758), Enallopsammia profunda (Pourtalès, 1867) and Candidella imbricata (Johnson, 1862). LB and AF received fund from the EU-FP7 projects CoralFISH (contract no. 213144), HERMIONE (contract no. 226354) and the Hessian initiative for the development of scientific and economic excellence (LOEWE) at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany. EM is part of the research group 2014SGR-120 of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Peer reviewed

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