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Issue: Vol. 3815 No. 3: 16 Jun. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.3.10
Page range: 441–446
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 2

A new Munidopsis species (Galatheoidea, Munidopsidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic

Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Invertebrados, Setor de Carcinologia, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Invertebrados, Setor de Carcinologia, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Invertebrados, Setor de Carcinologia, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Invertebrados, Setor de Carcinologia, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
squat lobsters Brazilian waters systematics diversity

Abstract

Six Munidopsis species are recorded to the Southwestern Atlantic: M. barbarae; M. erinacea; M. nitida; M. sigsbei; M. riveroi and M. transtridens. Herein a new Munidopsis species from Southwestern Atlantic is described: Munidopsis trindadensis sp.nov., was sampled off Trindade Island (Espírito Santo, Brazil) at 360 m depth and differs from all six species previously recorded in this region by the telson with seven plates.