Munidopsis curvirostra Whiteaves 1874

• Main Authors: De Matos-Pita, Susana S., Ramil, Fran
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Galatheidae; Munidopsis; Munidopsis curvirostra; Macpherson; Pacific; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6141982; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/65694771FF95FFCE2F9015C0988E5308

Munidopsis curvirostra Whiteaves, 1874 Munidopsis curvirostra Whiteaves, 1874: 212.—Baba et al. 2008: 138 (list of references and synonymies). Material examined . MAURIT 1107, Stn L04, 1812–1824 m, 1 ovigerous female 8.6 mm. MAURIT 0 811, Stn L13, 1808– 1862 m, 3 males 7.2–8.2 mm. MAURIT 0 911, Stn L15, 1746– 1749 m, 1 female 7.1 mm. MAURIT 1011, Stn L04, 1765–1773 m, 1 ovigerous female 11.7 mm, Stn L15, 1747– 1867 m, 1 ovigerous female 7.6 mm. Remarks . Our specimens agree well with those described for the East Atlantic Ocean by Selbie (1914) and Macpherson & Segonzac (2005). Distribution . This species is known from Iceland to Mauritania in the eastern Atlantic and from Davis Straits to North Carolina in the western Atlantic; this species has been also cited at the Lord Howe Ridge, southwest Pacific (Khodkina 1981). Its bathymetrical range varies between 329 (Whiteaves 1874) and 2430 m. Published as part of De Matos-Pita, Susana S. & Ramil, Fran, 2014, Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Anomura) from Mauritanian waters (West Africa), with the description of a new species of Munidopsis, pp. 418-434 in Zootaxa 3765 (5) on pages 427-428, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3765.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/226306