Munidopsis crassa

Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4), pp. 445-522 : 478

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MUNIDOPSIS CRASSA SMITH, 1885

Type locality: North Atlantic Ocean , off East Coast of United States, Steamer Albatross, sta. 2224; 36°16′30″N, 68°21′W; 4902 m, from globigerina ooze GoogleMaps .

Known range: Non-vent records are restricted to the Atlantic ( Pequegnat & Pequegnat, 1970; Wenner, 1982).

Occurrence at vents or seeps: Vent and seep records include the Snake Pit hydrothermal field on the MAR (3480 m) ( Segonzac, 1992) and cold seeps off Peru ( Olu et al., 1996a) at 3000–3600 m; unidentified galatheids at 5040 m off Peru might also belong to this species ( Chevaldonné & Olu, 1996: 291).

Material: Wenner (1982) reported the collection of a single specimen at 2679 m from 36°59.2′N, 73°43.4′W. Non-vent record: type locality; 8 September 1884; USNM 8563 About USNM (holotype female) GoogleMaps .

Remarks: As noted by Chevaldonné & Olu (1996), the Peruvian record is in need of confirmation, as the previous known range for the species was restricted to the Atlantic at depths of 2679–5315 m ( Wenner, 1982).

References

Chevaldonne P, Olu K. 1996. Occurrence of anomuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) in hydrothermal vent and cold-seep communities: a review. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109 (2): 286 - 298.

Olu KA, Duperret A, Sibuet M, Foucher JP, Fiala-Medioni A. 1996 a. Structure and spatial distribution of cold seep communities along the Peruvian active margin: relationship with geological and fluid patterns. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 132: 109 - 125.

Pequegnat LH, Pequegnat WE. 1970. Deep-sea anomurans of superfamily Galatheoidea with descriptions of three new species. In: Pequegnat WE, Chace FA Jr, eds. Contributions on the Biology of the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A & M University Oceanographic Studies. Houston: Gulf Publishing Company, 125 - 170.

Segonzac M. 1992. Les peuplements associes a l'hydrothermalisme oceanique du Snake Pit (dorsale medio-atlantique; 23 ° N, 3480 m): composition et microdistribution de la megafaune. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, serie III 314: 593 - 600.

Smith SI. 1885. On some new or little known decapod Crustacea from recent Fish Commission dredging off the East Coast of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 7: 493 - 511.

Wenner EL. 1982. Notes on the distribution and biology of Galatheidae and Chirostylidae (Decapoda: Anomura) from the Middle Atlantic Bight. Journal of Crustacean Biology 2 (3): 360 - 377.