Munida stimpsoni 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 : 400

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Munida stimpsoni A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
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Munida stimpsoni A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

Munida stimpsoni has been reported in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in depths of 252 to 897 m (Milne- Edwards 1880; Benedict 1901; Chace 1942). All specimens measured were collected in July in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 200 to 530 m ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 G). Sixteen males were measured, 18 non-ovigerous females, and 31 ovigerous females; male CW ranged from 8.7 to 14.1 mm, female CW ranged from 10 to 13.3 mm, and ovigerous female CW ranged from 10 to 14.4 mm. Males and females were not significantly different in size (t-test, df = 63, t = -1.535, p = 0.130) nor were ovigerous females and non-ovigerous females (t-test, df = 45, t = -0.407, p = 0.686). Females carried between 560 and 3595 eggs with an average egg diameter between 0.35 mm and 0.53 mm. Fecundity was not correlated with CW (R2 = 0.113, p = 0.065) nor was average egg size correlated to CW (R2 = 0.0548, p = 0.205).

Benedict, J. E. (1901) The anomuran collections made by the Fish Hawk Expedition to Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 20, 129 - 148.

Chace, Jr., F. A. (1942) Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis Expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The Anomura Crustacea. I. Galatheoidea. Torreia, 11, 1 - 106.

Milne-Edwards, A. (1880) Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, etc. VIII. Etudes preliminaries sur les Crustaces. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 8, 1 - 168.

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FIGURE 9. Number of specimens of each species collected for each month. Gray bars are males, white bars are females, and black bars are ovigerous females.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Galatheidae

Genus

Munida