Munida iris 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 : 396

Munida iris A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

Munida iris has been reported from Brazil to the Middle Atlantic Bight in depths of 45 to 932 m (Milne- Edwards 1880; Wenner 1982; de Melo-Filho 2006). All specimens used in our study were collected in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean in depths of 68 to 531 m. This species was collected in every month except October; ovigerous females were collected in every month except September and October ( Fig. 8 H). Only 16 males were measured and CW ranged from 6.8 to 20.8 mm; males and females were not significantly different in size (t-test, df = 22, t = 1.025, p = 0.317). One non-ovigerous female measured with a CW of 13 mm; seven ovigerous females had CW of 12.5 to 22.0 mm. Neither fecundity (R2 = 0.017, p = 0.834) nor average egg size was significantly correlated with CW (R2 = 0.155, p = 0.382).

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FIGURE 8. Number of specimens of each species collected for each month. Gray bars are males, white bars are females, and black bars are ovigerous females.