Munididae Ahyong, Baba, Macpherson & Poore, 2010

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 146

Family Munididae Ahyong, Baba, Macpherson & Poore, 2010

In the northeastern Pacific, most members of the Munididae live on the continental shelf or deeper. Some of these craylets are epibenthic, while others dig burrows. Feeding is by scavenging or using the setose third maxillipeds to rake the sediment for edible material. Munidids can swim for some distance by flapping the abdomen and spreading the legs. Pereopod 5 is slender and modified into a cleaning brush. Craylets use this appendage to clean the dorsal surface of the appendages and carapace. They can open the carapace to clean the surfaces of the gills.