Munida rogeri Macpherson, 1994

Ahyong, Shane T. & Poore, Gary C. B., 2004, Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia, Zootaxa 472 (1), pp. 1-76 : 41

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.472.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5029815

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scientific name

Munida rogeri Macpherson, 1994
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Munida rogeri Macpherson, 1994

Munida rogeri Macpherson, 1994: 518–521 , fig. 44 [type locality: Chesterfield Islands , New Caledonia].

Munida japonica . — Haig, 1972: 447; 1973: 271. — Davie, 2002: 64 [not M. japonica Stimpson, 1858 ].

Type material. WESTERN AUSTRALIA: WAM C4982 About WAM , 4 males (10.9–13.3 mm), 4 females (10.5–10.7 mm), between Fremantle and Geraldton, 146–220 m, trawled, FIS Endeavour, W. B. Alexander, 1912 .

Remarks. The present specimens of M. rogeri agree with the type description in all respects, and constitute a new record for Australia. Haig (1973) reported these specimens as M. japonica Stimpson, 1858 .

Distribution. New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands and now from Western Australia.

Davie, P. J. F. (2002) Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2). In: Wells, A. & Houston, W. W. K. (Eds.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3 B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. 551 pp.

Haig, J. (1972) The anomuran crabs of Western Australia: their distribution in the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 14, 443 - 451.

Haig, J. (1973) Galatheidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) collected by the F. I. S. Endeavour. Records of the Australian Museum, 28, 269 - 289.

Macpherson, E. (1994) Crustacea Decapoda: studies on the genus Munida Leach, 1820 (Galatheidae) in New Caledonian and adjacent waters with descriptions of 56 new species. In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.), Resultats de Campagnes MUSORSTOM, volume 12. Memoires de Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 161, 421 - 569.

Stimpson, W. (1858) Prodromus Descriptionis Animalium Evertabratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Crustacea Anomura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 10, 225 - 252.

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Galatheidae

Genus

Munida