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Genus of crustaceans

Munidopsis
Temporal range: Campanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Munidopsis serricornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Munidopsidae
Genus: Munidopsis
Whiteaves, 1874
Type species
Munidopsis curvirostra
Whiteaves, 1874

Munidopsis is a genus of squat lobster. It is the second largest of all the genera of squat lobsters, after Munida, with over 200 species. Its members are mainly found on continental slopes and on abyssal plains. A few fossil species are also known, including specimens from the Campanian (Cretaceous).

Diversity

There are currently over 230 known species.

Distribution

Munidopsis, like other squat lobsters, are often found in chemosynthetic environments in the ocean.

Munidopsis was the first confirmed genus to inhabit the underwater Mud volcano habitat.

Most Munidopsis species are found in the deep sea at depths more than 5300m.

In 2022, during surveys of the wreck of the Endurance, a squat lobster believed to be an unidentified species in the Munidopsis genus was observed.

Historical significance

The genus Munidopsis dates back to the Eocene and Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica.

Species

The described living species are as follows:

References

  1. ^ Keiji Baba; Enrique Macpherson; Gary C. B. Poore; Shane T. Ahyong; Adriana Bermudez; Patricia Cabezas; Chia-Wei Lin; Martha Nizinski; Celso Rodrigues; Kareen E. Schnabel (2008). "Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura—families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1905: 1–220. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1.
  2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  3. ^ Marin, Ivan (2020-04-01). "Northern unicorns of the depths: Diversity of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Decapoda: Anomura: Munidopsidae) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with descriptions of three new species along the Russian coast". Progress in Oceanography. 183: 102263. Bibcode:2020PrOce.18302263M. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102263. ISSN 0079-6611. S2CID 213287533.
  4. ^ Dong, Dong; Li, Xinzheng (2018). "New record of Munidopsis taiwanica (Decapoda, Anomura) from a mud volcano field in the Mariana Trench, with in-situ observations on habitat". Crustaceana. 91 (3): 363–373. doi:10.1163/15685403-00003773. ISSN 0011-216X.
  5. "'Squat lobster' photobombs Shackleton's Endurance ship". BBC News. 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  6. Gašparič, Rok; Hyžný, Matúš; Jovanović, Gordana; Ćorić, Stjepan; Vrabac, Sejfudin (2019). "Middle Miocene decapod crustacean assemblage from the Tuzla Basin (Tušanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina), with a description of two new species and comparison with coeval faunas from Slovenia". Palaeontologia Electronica. 22 (1). doi:10.26879/894. S2CID 135125843.
  7. Türkay, M. (2012). Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106836 on 2013-01-09
  8. ^ Dong, Dong; Li, Xinzheng (September 2021). "Two new species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Crustacea: Anomura: Munidopsidae) from the Caroline Ridge, South of the Mariana Trench". Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 39 (5): 1841–1853. Bibcode:2021JOL....39.1841D. doi:10.1007/s00343-021-0385-6. ISSN 2096-5508. S2CID 236984010.
  9. Tiwari, Shivam; Padate, Vinay P.; Cubelio, Sherine Sonia; Osawa, Masayuki (September 2022). "Chirostyloid and galatheoid anomurans (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Indian waters, with descriptions of three new species". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 102 (6): 459–478. doi:10.1017/S0025315422000753. ISSN 0025-3154. S2CID 253346328.
  10. ^ Dong Dong; Zhibin Gan; Xinzheng Li (2021). "Descriptions of eleven new species of squat lobsters (Crustacea: Anomura) from seamounts around the Yap and Mariana Trenches with notes on DNA barcodes and phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (2): 306–355. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab003.
  11. Ahyong S.T. (2013). "Munidopsis kareenae, a new species of seamount squat lobster from New Zealand with a key to the New Zealand species of Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae)". Zootaxa. 3599 (5): 490–494. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3599.5.6. PMID 24614002.
  12. ^ Rodríguez-Flores, Paula C.; Macpherson, Enrique; Machordom, Annie (2018-07-12). "Erratum: PAULA C. RODRÍGUEZ-FLORES, ENRIQUE MACPHERSON & ANNIE MACHORDOM (2018) Three new species of squat lobsters of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874, from Guadeloupe Island, Caribbean Sea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Munidopsidae). Zootaxa, 4422: 569–580". Zootaxa. 4444 (5): 600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4444.5.8. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30313911. S2CID 52976604.
  13. Dong, Dong; Xu, Peng; Li, Xin-Zheng; Wang, Chunsheng (2019-11-22). "Munidopsis species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae) from carcass falls in Weijia Guyot, West Pacific, with recognition of a new species based on integrative taxonomy". PeerJ. 7: e8089. doi:10.7717/peerj.8089. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6876489. PMID 31772841.

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