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Issue: Vol. 2130 No. 1: 11 Jun. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-06-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2130.1.2
Page range: 21–30
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 1

Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, III. A new species of the genus Babamunida (Crustacea: Galatheidae) from Hawaii based on morphological and molecular evidence

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, U.S.A
Honolulu Laboratory, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, 2570 Dole Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-2396, U.S.A
Crustacea Anomura squat lobster DNA 16S CO1 taxonomy central Pacific ROV Hawaii

Abstract

Babamunida kanaloa n. sp., a new galatheid from approximately 250 m depth off the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (French Frigate Shoals), is described. DNA sequence data from two gene regions (16S and CO1) corroborates the placement of this new species in the genus Babamunida. Images taken independently using the Deep Submergence Vehicle Pisces IV are almost certainly of the same species based on overall size and color pattern and provide limited ecological information. This new species brings the number of species in the genus Babamunida to six and the total number of galatheid species known from the Hawaiian Islands to four (possibly higher depending on some previous records that might be questionable).

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