Munidopsis nautilus
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Munidopsis nautilus   Rodriguez-Flores, Seid, Rouse & Giribet, 2023

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Munidopsidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic; depth range 2600 - ? m (Ref. 128308).  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Southeast Pacific: off Galapagos Islands.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Morphology

The carapace is smooth dorsally, with a pair of epigastric scales and a weakly distinct cervical grooves. Rostrum is narrow and triangular, lateral margins subparallel, unarmed. Frontal margins concave. Orbit excavated, outer orbital angle with a spine. Armed anterolateral angle with a small spine. Branchial margin armed with spines. Abdominal somites unarmed. Telson divided into 9 plates. Sternite 3 blunt anterolaterally, anterior margin almost straight with central notch, sternite 4 broadly triangular. The eyes are unarmed, immobile, and have epistomial spine. Article 1 of antennule with well-developed dorsolateral and distolateral spines. Mxp3 merus is rectangular in lateral view and has dorsal carina. P1 moderately slender, with some spines, with ventral pads on the palm, and fixed fingers without denticulate carina on distolateral margin. P2-4 slender, unarmed. Meri and propodi are cylindrical, dactyli stout, curved, flexor margin proximally reduced with teeth along all margins. Epipods absent from all pereopods (Ref. 128308).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Depth based on type locality; to be replaced with a better reference.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

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)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

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