Munida miles A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, Zootaxa 3754 (4), pp. 381-419 : 397

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Munida miles has been reported from Brazil to the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 68 to 659 m ( Milne-Edwards 1880; Henderson 1888; Chace 1942) and has also been reported as Munida decora (see Baba et al. 2008). We used specimens collected in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean in depths of 250 to 630 m. Specimens were collected in January, March, May, June, July, November, and December; ovigerous specimens were only collected in May and July ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 C). Forty-three males (CW from 4.2 to 16.5 mm), 21 non-ovigerous females (CW from 9.7 to 17.0 mm), and 22 ovigerous were measured (CW from 10.9 to 17.6 mm); males and females were not significantly different in size (t-test, df = 84, t = 0.735, p = 0.464) nor were ovigerous and non-ovigerous females (t-test, df = 41, t = 1.563, p = 0.126). Females carried between 334 and 3224 eggs with an average egg diameter per female range of 0.36 to 0.54 mm. Both, fecundity (R2 = 0.326, p = 0.005; Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 E) and the average egg diameter was correlated with CW (R2 = 0.188, p = 0.044).

References

Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Poore, G. C. B., Ahyong, S. T., Bermudez, A., Cabezas, P., Lin, C., Nizinski, M., Rodrigues, C. & Schnabel, K. E. (2008) Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura-families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa, 1905, 1 - 220.

Chace, Jr., F. A. (1942) Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis Expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The Anomura Crustacea. I. Galatheoidea. Torreia, 11, 1 - 106.

Henderson, J. R. (1888) Report on the Anomura collected by H. M. S Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. In: Murray, J. (Ed.), Zoology. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger During the Years 1873 - 76 Under the Command of Captain George S. Nares, R. N., F. R. S. and the Late Captain Frank Tourle. Thomson, R. N. Wyville Thomson, C. & Murray, J. (series Eds.) Vol. 27. Neill and Company, Edinburg, pp. 1 - 221.

Milne-Edwards, A. (1880) Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, etc. VIII. Etudes preliminaries sur les Crustaces. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 8, 1 - 168.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Linear regression of carapace width and the number of eggs for Gastroptychus spinifer (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880) (A), Eumunida picta Smith, 1883 (B), Munida flinti Benedict, 1902 (C), Munida forceps A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (D), Munida miles A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (E), and Munida pusilla Benedict, 1902 (F). Black dashed lines are the 95 % confidence interval. Dotted lines are 95 % prediction intervals.

FIGURE 9. Number of specimens of each species collected for each month. Gray bars are males, white bars are females, and black bars are ovigerous females.