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Issue: Vol. 4743 No. 1: 24 Feb. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.1.12
Page range: 131–136
Abstract views: 79
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A new squat lobster species of the genus Munida Leach, 1820 (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheoidea: Munididae) from hydrothermal vents on the Eastern Pacific Rise

Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Qingdao, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Qingdao, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, China
Crustacea Munida alba new species Galatheoidea hydrothermal vent eastern Pacific Rise

Abstract

A new species of the genus Munida Leach, 1820, is described and illustrated based on a single specimen from the deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Eastern Pacific Rise. Munida alba sp. nov. closely resembles M. ampliantennulata Komai, 2011, M. watatsumin Komai, 2014. and M. magniantennulata, but differences in the morphologies of the third maxilliped, pollex of the cheliped and the third segment of the antennal peduncle readily distinguish the new species from the three relatives. The new species is the fourth of the genus occurring at the hydrothermal vent areas.

 

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