Munidopsis abdominalis ( 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 : 404

Munidopsis abdominalis ( A. Milne-Edwards, 1880)

Munidopsis abdominalis has previously been reported as Elasmonotus abdominalis (see Baba et al. 2008). It ranges from French Guiana to the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 357 to 720 m ( Chace 1942; Takeda 1983). Three males (CW from 6.1 to 8.6 mm) and one ovigerous female (CW = 7.9 mm) of M. abdominalis were present in the collections; these specimens were from the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 417 to 543 m.