Malacostraca |
Decapoda |
Munidopsidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range
Ekologi
; djupintervall 2600 - ? m (Ref. 128308). Tropical
Southeast Pacific: off Galapagos Islands.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
The carapace is smooth dorsally, with a pair of epigastric scales and a weakly distinct cervical grooves. Rostrum is narrow and triangular, lateral margins subparallel, unarmed. Frontal margins concave. Orbit excavated, outer orbital angle with a spine. Armed anterolateral angle with a small spine. Branchial margin armed with spines. Abdominal somites unarmed. Telson divided into 9 plates. Sternite 3 blunt anterolaterally, anterior margin almost straight with central notch, sternite 4 broadly triangular. The eyes are unarmed, immobile, and have epistomial spine. Article 1 of antennule with well-developed dorsolateral and distolateral spines. Mxp3 merus is rectangular in lateral view and has dorsal carina. P1 moderately slender, with some spines, with ventral pads on the palm, and fixed fingers without denticulate carina on distolateral margin. P2-4 slender, unarmed. Meri and propodi are cylindrical, dactyli stout, curved, flexor margin proximally reduced with teeth along all margins. Epipods absent from all pereopods (Ref. 128308).
Depth based on type locality; to be replaced with a better reference.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Rodríguez-Flores, P.C., C.A. Seid, G.W. Rouse and G. Giribet 2023 Cosmopolitan abyssal lineages? A systematic study of East Pacific deep-sea squat lobsters (Decapoda: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae). Invertebrate Systematics 37(1):14-60. (Ref. 128308)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
| FishSource |
Verktyg
Ytterligare information
Trophic EcologyFood items (preys)
Födosammansättning
Födointag
Predatorer
Population dynamicsTillväxt
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
Abundans
Life cycleReproduktion
Könsmognad
Fecundity
Lek
Eggs
Egg development
Larvae
PhysiologySyreförbrukning
Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
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Estimates based on models