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Issue: Vol. 3734 No. 3: 6 Nov. 2013
Type: Article
Published: 2013-11-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.3.7
Page range: 380–384
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of deep-sea squat lobster of the genus Munida Leach, 1820 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Munididae) from a hydrothermal field in the southwestern Indian Ocean

Third Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Daxue Road No.178, Xiamen, China Marine Environmental Monitor Center of Guangxi, Gongyuan Road No.49, Beihai, China
Third Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Daxue Road No.178, Xiamen, China
Third Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Daxue Road No.178, Xiamen, China
Munida manqingae new species Galatheoidea hydrothermal area southwestern Indian Ocean

Abstract

A new species of the genus Munida Leach, 1820, is described and illustrated based on a single specimen from the deep-sea hydrothermal area in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Munida manqingae sp. nov. closely resembles M. tiresias Macpherson 1994, but differs in the morphology of the carapace, basal segment of the antennular peduncles, first segment of the antennal peduncle.