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WoRMS taxon details

Munidopsis similis Smith, 1885

107182  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107182)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Anomura (Infraorder)
  12. Galatheoidea (Superfamily)
  13. Munidopsidae (Family)
  14. Munidopsis (Genus)
  15. Munidopsis similis (Species)
accepted
Species
Munidopsis asiatica Marin, 2020 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Smith, S.I. (1885). On some new or little known decapod Crustacea, from recent Fish Commission dredgings off the east coast of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 7: 493-511 [imprint 1884]. [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  USNM 8255, geounit Nantucket Shoals  
Holotype USNM 8255, geounit Nantucket Shoals [details]
Depth range Deep (more than 100 m)  
Depth range Deep (more than 100 m) [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Munidopsis similis Smith, 1885. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107182 on 2025-05-31
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Türkay, Michael
2005-12-23 11:00:52Z
checked
Türkay, Michael
2022-01-21 09:23:26Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-08-06 14:19:27Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

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Nomenclature

original description Smith, S.I. (1885). On some new or little known decapod Crustacea, from recent Fish Commission dredgings off the east coast of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 7: 493-511 [imprint 1884]. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Munidopsis asiatica Marin, 2020) Marin, I. (2020). Northern unicorns of the depths: Diversity of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Decapoda: Anomura: Munidopsidae) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with descriptions of three new species along the Russian coast. Progress in Oceanography. 183: e102263., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102263 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

additional source Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.; Ahyong, S.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa. 1905: 1-220. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Rodríguez-Flores, P. C.; Seid, C. A.; Rouse, G. W.; Giribet, G. (2023). Cosmopolitan abyssal lineages? A systematic study of East Pacific deep-sea squat lobsters (Decapoda: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 37(1): 14-60., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is22030 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype USNM 8255, geounit Nantucket Shoals [details]
Unreviewed
Depth range Deep (more than 100 m) [details]

Habitat Hard bottom (rock and rubbles) [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English similar squat lobster  [details]
French galathée similaire  [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Munidopsis asiatica Marin, 2020)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) 
To CRUSTA 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Munidopsis asiatica) (from synonym Munidopsis asiatica Marin, 2020)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Munidopsis similis) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Munidopsis asiatica Marin, 2020)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 6 proteins) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (8 records) 
To ITIS
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