Munida affinis 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 : 394

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5627689

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scientific name

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

Munida affinis has been collected from the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 357 to 549 m ( Milne-Edwards 1880; Chace 1942). A total of 123 mature specimens was available from collections; only 51 were measured. Males (33 measured) were significantly larger than females (t-test, df = 50, t = -2.695, p = 0.01); male CW ranged from 2.4 to 3.9 mm, female CW range from 2.0 to 3.2 mm, ovigerous female CW ranged from 1.7 to 3.8 mm. Three non-ovigerous females and 16 ovigerous females were measured; sizes between ovigerous and nonovigerous females were not significantly different (t-test, df = 17, t = 0.252, p = 0.804). Specimens were collected between January and May; ovigerous specimens were collected January through May ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 B). Unfortunately, no egg sizes or numbers were recorded for this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Galatheidae

Genus

Munida

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