Munididae

Munididae
Temporal range: Tithonian–recent
Cervimunida princeps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Galatheoidea
Family: Munididae
Ahyong, Baba, Macpherson, Poore, 2010

The Munididae are a family of squat lobsters created in 2010.[1]

Description and ecology

The squat lobsters in the family Munididae can be distinguished from other families by the presence of a trispinose frontal edge to the carapace, as well as a central rostrum, and two spines extend forward from above the eyes.[1] Although a few species enter shallow water, the majority of species in the Munididae are deep-water taxa, in contrast to the mostly shallow-water Galatheidae.[1]

Taxonomy

The genera now included in the family Munididae had previously been included in a wider Galatheidae.[1] When originally described in 2010, the family contained these genera:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Shane T. Ahyong; Keiji Baba; Enrique Macpherson; Gary C. B. Poore (2010). "A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 57–68.
  2. C.M. Robins, R.M. Feldmann & C.E. Schweitzer (2012). "The oldest Munididae (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea) from Ernstbrunn, Austria (Tithonian)" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A. 114: 289–300. JSTOR 41702112.
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