Munidopsis andamanica MacGilchrist, 1905

Taylor, Joanne, Ahyong, Shane T. & Andreakis, Nikos, 2010, New records and new species of the munidopsine squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae: Munidopsinae) from Australia, Zootaxa 2642, pp. 1-18 : 8-10

Munidopsis andamanica MacGilchrist, 1905

( Fig. 3 , 5 B, 5D)

Munidopsis Wardeni var. andamanica MacGilchrist, 1905: 245 .

Munidopsis (Munidopsis) Wardeni. — Doflein & Balss 1913: 153, pl. 14, fig. 2.

Munidopsis andamanica . — Baba 1988: 140, fig. 53. — Wu et al. 1998: 137, figs 37, 42C. — Komai 2000: 358. — Baba 2005: 284. — Macpherson 2007: 37. — Osawa & Takeda 2007: 137, fig. 3A, B. — Osawa et al. 2008: 38. — Poore et al. 2008: 21.

Not Munidopsis cylindrophthalma . — Poore et al. 2008: 21.

Material examined. AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: NMV J55015 , 5 males, 2 females (cl. 13.4– 25.1 mm), off Ningaloo North, 21°58.13–58.70´S, 113°58.66–45.23´E, 726–732 m, 11 Dec. 2005 (stn SS10/ 2005/159) (acq. 008); NMV J55128 , 1 male, (not measured) (stn SS10/2005/159) (acq. 008).

Type locality. East of Andaman Islands, 1041 m.

Remarks. The specimens agree in most respects with published accounts. Munidopsis andamanica can be distinguished from other species of the genus known from Australia by a combination of characters that includes the sharply triangular rostrum; absence of any eyespines; absence of epipods on the cheliped and the generally smooth carapace that lacks both epigastric spines and an outer orbital spine on frontal margin. This is the first report of the species in Australian waters.

Distribution. East of the Andaman Islands, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Taiwan, South China Sea, Philippines, Japan, and southwestern Australia; 334–1598 m.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Carapace (dorsal view) of Galacantha and Munidopsis species reported from Australian waters. G. ro s t r a t a (from Baba & Poore 2002: fig. 5), G. subspinosa (from Baba 1988: fig. 67), G. trachynotus (from Tirmizi 1966: fig. 25), G. valdiviae (from Baba et al. 2009: fig. 85), M. andamanica (from Baba et al. 2009: fig. 187), M. antonii (from Baba 2005: fig. 53 b), M. bispinoculata (from Baba 1994: fig. 7), M. centrina (from Ahyong & Poore 2004: fig. 9), M. cidaris (from Baba 1994: fig. 7), M. crenatirostris (from Baba 1988: fig. 57), M. dasypus (from Osawa et al. 2008: fig 2), M. edwardsii (from Baba et al. 2009: fig. 207).

FIGURE 5. A, Galacantha subspinosa Macpherson, 2007, lateral view, NMV J 56403; B, dorsal view. C, Munidopsis andamanica MacGilchrist, 1905, lateral view, NMV J 55015, D, dorsal view; E, Munidopsis crenatirostris Baba, 1988, dorsal view, NMV J 56397; F, Munidopsis dasypus Alcock, 1894, dorsal view, NMV J 55006; G, Munidopsis kenselyi Ahyong & Poore, 2004, dorsal view, NMV J 57251; H, Munidopsis vesper sp. nov., dorsal view, holotype male WAM C 45482. All photographs copyright CSIRO.