Munidopsis subsquamosa Henderson 1888

• Main Authors: Guzman, Guillermo L., Sellanes, Javier
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Galatheidae; Munidopsis; Munidopsis subsquamosa; Pacific; Patagonia; West Cape; Crozet Islands; Patagonian Toothfish
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5030593; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B3B0CFFEBFF82FF48F94AE7E899D5

Munidopsis subsquamosa Henderson, 1888 (Fig. 9) Restricted synonymy: Munidopsis subsquamosa Henderson, 1888: 414; 1888: 152, pl. 17, figs. 4, 4a Munidopsis subsquamosa var. aculeata Henderson, 1888: 153, pl. 16: figs. 1, la.— Gordon, 1955: 244, figs. lC, 1D, 2B, 2B', 3B, 3C.— Wicksten, 1989: 136 (list). Munidopsis aculeata Haig, 1955: 41.— Retamal, 1981: 23 (list), fig. 98. Type locality . Stn 237 expedition “Challenger” off the Japanese coast, SE of Nojimazaki, Boso Peninsula, Japan (34°37’N, 140°32’E), 3431 m. Distributional range . Japan: Boso Peninsula, Izu Shoto (Henderson 1885; Baba 1982). Australia: New South Wales (Ahyong & Poore 2004). Marion and Crozet Islands and west of Patagonia, Chile (Henderson 1888, as M. subsquamosa aculeata ). South Africa: West Cape Point (Kensley 1968 as M. barnardi ) between Marion and Crozet islands. Coasts of the South American Pacific, Gulf of Panama, off Chiloe, Chile (Haig 1955). Bathymetric range . 865–3431 m. New record . MUAP (CD)-0468, ovigerous female, cl 18.28 mm, off Caldera (~27°S; about 1000 m), February 2004, taken in Patagonian Toothfish ( Dissostichus eleginoides ) long-line at about 1000 m; MUAP (CD)-0469, ovigerous female cl 17.56 mm, off Concepción “ONR” expedition AGT 0 7 (32°21.64’S, 73°43.57’W, 865–926 m). Description . Rostrum acute, short, almost half carapace length; with medial keel. Carapace almost pentagonal, densely covered by scale-like tubercles ending in minute spine with row of single setae; few spines in cardiac region and along margins (see Henderson 1895); antennal spine acute, short, not reaching the cornea; carapace surface flat, without well delimited regions; cervical groove poorly developed (Fig. 9 b). Eyes with long ocular spine (Fig. 9 a). Abdominal segments unarmed, with 1 transverse groove on second to fourth somites (Fig. 9 c). Chelipeds short, almost same length as carapace; palm as long as dactyl, both unarmed (Fig. 9 d), surface with low tubercles ending in row of setae; carpus and merus armed with strong spines on the ...