Munida spinifrons Henderson, 1885

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 : 400

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5627727
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scientific name	Munida spinifrons Henderson, 1885
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Munida spinifrons has been reported from Brazil to the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 13 to 150 m ( Henderson 1885; Baba & Camp 1988; de Melo-Filho & de Melo 2001b). There were no ovigerous females in the collections for M. spinifrons . There were four males (CW from 2.3 to 4.3 mm) and three females (one measured with a CW of 2.7 mm) present; all were collected in the Gulf of Mexico in depths from 57 to 260 m in March, April, June, and July.