Munidopsis

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Munidopsis
Temporal range: Campanian–Recent
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Munidopsis serricornis
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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. [1] Its members are mainly found on continental slopes and on abyssal plains. [1] A few fossil species are also known, [2] including specimens from the Campanian (Cretaceous).

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Diversity

There are currently over 230 known species. [3]

Distribution

Munidopsis, like other squat lobsters, are often found in chemosynthetic environments in the ocean. [4]

Munidopsis was the first confirmed genus to inhabit the underwater Mud volcano habitat. [4]

Most Munidopsis species are found in the deep sea at depths more than 5300m. [3]

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. [5]

Historical significance

The genus Munidopsis dates back to the Eocene and Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. [6]

Species

The described living species are as follows: [7]

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<i>Dactylonida</i>

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References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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.
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