Munidopsis lignaria

Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4), pp. 445-522 : 479

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00178.x
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scientific name	Munidopsis lignaria
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MUNIDOPSIS LIGNARIA WILLIAMS & BABA, 1989

Type locality: north-eastern Pacific Ocean, off Oregon, Cascadia Basin; 44°39.8′N, 125°36.4′W; 2875 m (for holotype); paratype material includes material from Cascadia Basin and the EPR off central Mexico GoogleMaps .

Known range: Cascadia Basin south to the EPR off central Mexico ( Williams & Baba, 1989).

Occurrence at vents or seeps: possibly not at all; see below.

Material: north-eastern Pacific Ocean, off Oregon, Cascadia Basin, sta. CP-1-E; 44°39.8′N, 125°36.4′W; 2875 m; R / V Yaquina ; 16 March 1970; Y 7001 B; 3-m Beam Trawl , BMT 184; USNM 240202 About USNM (holotype male). –sta. CP-2-C; 45°18.6′N, 126°31.5′W; 2750 m; R / V Yaquina ; 18 February 1971; Y 7001 B; 3-m Beam Trawl , BMT 265; USNM 240203 About USNM (allotype female). –sta. CP-2-D; 44°53.7′N, 126°33.4′W; 2774 m; R / V Yaquina ; 19 January 1970; Y 7001 B; 3-m Beam Trawl , BMT 162; OSUBI 00189 (paratypes, 19 males, 13 females). –sta. CP-1-A; 45°55.3′N, 125°36.1′W; 2030 m; R / V Yaquina; 20 March 1970; Y 7003 B; 3-m Beam Trawl, BMT 194; USNM 171342 About USNM (paratype, 1 female). –sta. CP-2-A; 45°52.5′N, 126°40.8′W; depth not provided; R / V Yaquina; 16 January 1970; Y 7001 B; 3-m Beam Trawl, BMT 154; USNM 171343 About USNM (nontypes, 6 males, 7 females) ( Williams & Baba, 1989) GoogleMaps .

– eastern Pacific Ocean , EPR, off south-central Mexico; 11°52′N, 103°51′W; 2750 m; Alvin dive 2000; 22 March 1988; from piece of wood; USNM 240204 About USNM (paratypes, 8 males, 12 females) ( Williams & Baba, 1989) GoogleMaps .

Remarks: Inclusion of this species in our list is questionable (it was not included in the list of vent and seep anomurans compiled by Chevaldonné & Olu, 1996). As the name implies, this species, and several other species of Munidopsis , are found associated with wood in the deep sea. According to Williams & Baba (1989), specimens of this species came from ‘among samples of biological specimens collected from both vent and non-vent environments’. Thus, its ‘presence’ near vent or seep sites is probably coincidental and has little or nothing to do with chemosynthetic environments per se. According to Williams & Baba (1989), this is also the species referred to as Munidopsis sp. by Van Dover (1988, unnumbered figure). To our knowledge the species has not been mentioned in the literature since its original description.