Malacostraca | 
Decapoda | 
Munidopsidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range				
				
					Ecology				
				
			
			
				Benthic; depth range 3188 - ? m (Ref. 128308).  Tropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Eastern Central Pacific:  California, USA.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
			
			
				Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm			
			
			
							
				
				
					
						This species can be distinguish by the following set of characters: having smal spine on the anterolateral margin of the carapace (vs. unarmed); carapace ornamentation has different tuberculation in the gastric area (denticles) from that in the cardiac area (long scales) (vs. homogenous); having epipods on P1-2 (vs. absent from the pereopods in M. dispar and present on P1-3 in M. tuberosa (Ref. 128308).					
				
				
						
			
			
			
			
				
									
			
			
			
			
			
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				Rodríguez-Flores, P.C., C.A. Seid, G.W. Rouse and G. Giribet 2023 Cosmopolitan abyssal lineages? A systematic study of East Pacific deep-sea squat lobsters (Decapoda: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae). Invertebrate Systematics 37(1):14-60. (Ref. 128308)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Ref. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				Threat to humans  
			
			
				
					  Harmless				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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