Munida militaris Henderson, 1885

McCallum, Anna W., Ahyong, Shane T. & Andreakis, Nikos, 2021, New species of squat lobsters of the genus Munida from Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 80, pp. 113-152 : 147

Munida militaris Henderson, 1885

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Munida militaris Henderson, 1885: 410 (type locality: off Mataku, Fiji Islands). — Baba, 2008: 108 (synonymies, type data). — Baba et al., 2009: 173, figs 153–155 (in part) ( Taiwan, 190–1183 m). — Poore et al., 2011: pl. 17E (colour).

Not Munida militaris Baba et al., 2009: 173 (in part) (Taiwan) (= M. lanciaria Cabezas et al., 2011 ).

Munida aff. Rubiesi — Poore et al., 2008, 20 (part), unnumbered fig.

Munida MoV 5183. — McEnnulty et al., 2011: app. 1, 2.

Material examined. Western Australia: NMV J55033 , 1 ovigerous female (cl 15.0 mm, pcl 9.4 mm), 31° 36.528' S 114° 58.86' E to 31° 37.038' S 114° 58.26' E, 329–370 m, SS10/2005/06, 19 November 2005 ; NMV J55035 , 1 ovigerous female (cl 15.0 mm, pcl 10.2 mm), near Abrolhos islands , 28° 29.37' S 113° 25.14' E to 28° 30.06' S 113° 25.5' E, 416–431 m, SS10/2005/95, 4 December 2005 .

Genetic data. Not available.

Colour. Carapace and somites 2–4 orange and white, somites 5–6 and telson white. Rostrum and supraocular spines orange on base and tips and white in the middle. Chela white and orange, and orange/red bands on distal half of fingers. P2–4 transparent white/orange with orange/red across the middle of propodus and tips of dactyli.

Remarks. The specimens here agree with the lectotype description of M. militaris by Baba and Macpherson (1991). Munida militaris closely resembles M. benguela de Saint Laurent and Macpherson, 1988 , but can be distinguished by the following features:

- moveable finger of the cheliped bears a single basomesial spine

- P2–4 dactyli with about 10 ventral spines, the untimate at the base of the unguis.

Our specimens differ slightly from the illustrated lectotype material from Fiji and Ambon. The lectotype has the distomesial spine of antenna article 2 described as occasionally overreaching the end of the peduncle, while in both our specimens, the distomesial spine distinctly overreaches the distal end of the peduncle .

Distribution. Taiwan, Indonesia, Queensland, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, T-onga, 190–1183 m. South-western Australia, 329– 431 m.

Figures

Figure 20. A, Munida militaris Henderson, 1885, ovigerous female cl 15.0 mm, pcl 9.4 mm, (NMV J55033); B, Munida magniantennulata Baba and Türkay, 1992, ovigerous female (NMV J73001); C, Munida pectinata Machordom and Macpherson, 2005, male (NMV J55268); D. Munida roshanei Tirmizi, 1966, male 11.1 mm, pcl 7.2 mm (NMV J55261). Photos: K. Gowlett-Holmes, CSIRO.