WoRMS taxon details

Munidopsis geyeri Pequegnat & Pequegnat, 1970

Munidopsis geyeri, 4921 m Mona Seamount, Caribbean Sea

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Océano Profundo 2018. Identification from photograph by M. Wicksten.

196024  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196024)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pequegnat, L.H.; Pequegnat, W.E. (1970). Deep-sea anomurans of superfamily Galatheoidea with description of three new species. In: Pequegnat, W.E. & Chace, F.A. (Eds.) Contributions on the Biology of the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A & M University, pp. 125–170.  [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Depth range Deep (more than 100 m)  
Depth range Deep (more than 100 m) [details]
DecaNet eds. (2024). DecaNet. Munidopsis geyeri Pequegnat & Pequegnat, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196024 on 2024-03-29
Date
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2005-12-23 10:00:43Z
created
2019-12-05 08:43:42Z
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2022-01-20 14:22:01Z
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2022-08-06 14:19:27Z
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original description Pequegnat, L.H.; Pequegnat, W.E. (1970). Deep-sea anomurans of superfamily Galatheoidea with description of three new species. In: Pequegnat, W.E. & Chace, F.A. (Eds.) Contributions on the Biology of the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A & M University, pp. 125–170.  [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.; Ahyong, S.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1905: 1-220. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Felder, D. L., Álvarez. F.,Goy, J.W. & Lemaitre, R. (2009). Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea,. <em>Felder, D.L., and Camp, D.K. (eds), Gulf of Mexico - Origins, Waters, and Biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity.</em> Pp. 1019–1104 (Texas A&M University Press: College Station, Texas)., available online at http://biogomx.net/sites/default/files/pdfs/chapters/59-Felder%20et%20al%202009-Decapoda%20of%20the%20GoMx.pdf [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Depth range Deep (more than 100 m) [details]

Habitat Soft bottom (mud or sand) [details]