Munidopsis shulerae Vazquez- Bader, Gracia & Lemaitre, 2014

Vazquez-Bader, Ana Rosa & Gracia, Adolfo, 2016, Diversity and distribution of Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea (Decapoda, Anomura) in the Southern Gulf of Mexico, ZooKeys 612, pp. 1-30 : 18

Taxon classification Animalia Decapoda Munidopsidae

Munidopsis shulerae Vazquez- Bader, Gracia & Lemaitre, 2014

Material examined.

BATO stn. 15, 1 male. BIOREPES 1 stn. 55, 1 male. BIOREPES 2 stn. 25, 1 female, stn. 31, 1 female.

Remarks.

This species has been reported in the northern and southern part of the Gulf of Mexico: Straits of Florida; off coast of Campeche, and the western Caribbean from 320 to 787 m ( Vázquez-Bader et al. 2014). In the present study Munidopsis schulerae was collected off N Celestún, and N Alacranes, Yucatán (sector ESE) from 503 to 640 m depth. The two males analyzed had a CL size range of 6.8-10.5 and females 7.9-10.4 mm.