Babamunida Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2008

Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, Zootaxa 2947 (1), pp. 1-154 : 15

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Genus Babamunida Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2008

(?) Babamunida brucei Baba, 1974

Munida brucei Baba, 1974: 55 , figs. 1, 2 [type locality: Kenya; holotype: NHM 1973 : 203].

Hawaiian Is. record:

Munida brucei Baba, 1974 — Chave & Malahoff 1998: table 1 [H.I., Lō‘ ihi Volcano, Johnston Atoll].

Remarks. The identification of the Hawaiian Is. material is questionable.

Taxonomy. Baba (2005)

Geographical distribution. Western Indian Ocean, questionably in the Hawaiian Is. and Johnston Atoll; presumably in other locations in the Indo-West Pacific region.

Habitat. Subtidal to bathyal, 119–1925 m.

References

Baba, K. (1974) Munida brucei sp. nov., a new galatheid (Decapoda, Anomura) from the east coast of Africa. Anotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 47 (1), 55 - 60.

Baba, K. (2005) Deep-sea chirostylid and galatheid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) from the Indo-West Pacific, with a list of species. Galathea Reports, 20, 1 - 317.

Chave, E. H. & Malahoff, A. (1998) In Deeper Waters. Photographic Studies on Hawaiian Deep-Sea Habitats and Life-Forms. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu. 125 pp.