Munidopsidae

Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, Zootaxa 3754 (4), pp. 381-419 : 400-402

Munidopsidae

Munidopsidae are reported throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean; we used specimens found in both of these water bodies ( Fig. 11 ). Specimens of 38 of the 42 species of Munidopsidae reported from the Gulf of Mexico were examined ( Table 4 ). Of these, 12 had sample sizes sufficient to warrant statistical analyses.

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Figures

FIGURE 11. Distribution of each species of the Munidopsidae used in analysis. Each symbol is a collection location and different species (see legend).

Tables

TABLE 4. List of species of Munidopsidae from the Gulf of Mexico, number of specimens present in the collection, number of ovigerous females, and number of ovigerous specimens with eggs measured in parenthesis.

Species	Number of samples	Number of ovigerous females
Galacantha rostrata	10	0
Galacantha spinosa	121	32 (16)
Leiogalathea agassizii	6	0
Munidopsis abbreviata	30	8 (8)
Munidopsis abdominalis		1 (0)
Munidopsis alaminos		6 (6)
Munidopsis aries Munidopsis armata	1 15	0 6 (3)
Munidopsis barbarae	0	4
Munidopsis bermudezi	5	22
Munidopsis brevimanus	0	0
Munidopsis colombiana	1	1 (0)
Munidopsis crassa	12	0
Munidopsis curvirostra	3	1 (0)
Munidopsis erinacea	225	48 (17)
Munidopsis espinis	0	0
Munidopsis expansa Munidopsis geyeri	1 11	0 0
Munidopsis gilli	1	1 (0)
Munidopsis glabra	5	2 (1)
Munidopsis gulfensis	2	0
Munidopsis latifrons	4	2
Munidopsis livida	0	0
Munidopsis longimanus	54	13 (9)
Munidopsis nitida	115	3 (1)
Munidopsis penescabra	4	0
Munidopsis platirostris	5	1 (0)
Munidopsis polita	8	4 (1)
Munidopsis ramahtaylorae	5	1 (0)
Munidopsis riveroi	62	32 (22)
Munidopsis robusta	238	76 (28)
Munidopsis serratifrons	6	1 (0)
Munidopsis serricornis	4	1 (0)
Munidopsis sigsbei	416	93 (79)
Munidopsis similis	7	1 (0)
Munidopsis simplex	55	16 (14)
Munidopsis spinifer	6	1 (0)
Munidopsis spinoculata	8	1 (1)
Munidopsis squamosa	1	0
Munidopsis subspinoculata	1	0
Munidopsis transtridens	4	1 (1)
Munidopsis tridens	2	1 (0)