Family EUMUNIDIDAE A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1900

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eumunidae Milne Edwards, A. & Bouvier, E.L. 1900. Crustaces Decapodes. Premiere partie. Brachyures et Anomoures. Expeditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman. 396 pp. 32 pls [299, 308, 312] [original spelling].

  Type genus:

   Eumunida Smith, 1883.
• Eumunididae A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900.

  Secondary source:

   Schnabel, K. & Ahyong, S.T. 2010. A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa 2687: 56–64 [58] (corrected spelling of family name).

Introduction

Eumunidid squat lobsters differ from chirostylids, sternostylids and kiwaids in having supraocular spines. All are deep-water species (shelf to slope depths) and primarily associated with lace corals (family Stylasteridae) (de Saint Laurent and Macpherson 1990; Schnabel & Ahyong 2010; Schnabel 2020). Their slender rostral and supraocular spines, and transversely grooved carapace gives a superficial resemblance to galatheoid munidids, which are readily separated by chirostyloid superfamily characters, such as the absence of sternite 8 and the telson being weakly divided transversely only, rather than into multiple plates.

Diagnosis

Carapace with transverse setiferous striae; posterolateral margin entire, not excavated. Supraocular spines present. Maxilliped 3 with crista dentata.

Diagnosis References

Poore, G.C.B.,& Ahyong, S.T. 2023. Marine decapod Crustacea. A guide to families and genera of the World. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing pp. 928.

Schnabel, K. & Ahyong, S.T. 2010. A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa 2687: 56–64 [58]

General References

de Saint Laurent, M. & Macpherson, E. 1990. Crustacea Decapoda: Le genre Eumunida Smith, 1883 (Chirostylidae) dans les eaux néo-caledoniennes. In: Crosnier, A. (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 6. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A 145: 227-288

Schnabel, K. 2020. The marine fauna of New Zealand. Squat lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Chirostyloidea). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 132: 1-351

Schnabel, K. & Ahyong, S.T. 2010. A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa 2687: 56–64

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