Pseudomunida

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Pseudomunida
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Eumunididae
Genus: Pseudomunida
Haig, 1979
Species:
P. fragilis
Binomial name
Pseudomunida fragilis
Haig, 1979

Pseudomunida fragilis is a species of squat lobster in a monotypic genus in the family Eumunididae. [1]

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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.