Interesting Facts
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Description
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Family Galatheidae
Telson not bent under the abdomen; found in shallow water, as well as at considerable depths.
Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -3,559 meters (0 to -11,677 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
()
- (Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass:
Crustacea
()
- Pennant, 1777
- Crustaceans
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
()
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
()
- Grobben, 1892
- Superorder:
Eucarida
()
- Calman, 1904
- Order:
Decapoda
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Decapods
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
()
- Burkenroad, 1963
- Infraorder:
Anomura
()
- MacLeay, 1838
- Superfamily:
Galatheoidea
()
- Samouelle, 1819
- Family:
Galatheidae
()
- Samouelle, 1819
- squat lobsters
- Genus:
Munida
()
- Leach, 1820
- Specific name:
andamanica
- Alcock, 1894
- Scientific name: - Munida andamanica Alcock, 1894
- Specific name:
andamanica
- Alcock, 1894
- Genus:
Munida
(
- Family:
Galatheidae
(
- Superfamily:
Galatheoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Anomura
(
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
(
- Order:
Decapoda
(
- Superorder:
Eucarida
(
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 18-Jan-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Munida
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. quadrispina (Squat Lobster)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- ...Scientific results of the cruises of the yachts "Eagle" and "Ara", 1921-1928, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Crustacea... By Lee Boone. Huntington, N. Y., Priv. print. [The Science press printing company, Lancaster, Pa.]1930- url p. 46.
- A descriptive catalogue of the Indian deep-sea Crustacea Decapoda Macrura and Anaomala, in the Indian museum. Being a revised account of the deep-sea species collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship Investigator. By A. Alcock. Calcutta: Printed by order of the trustees of the Indian museum, 1901. url p. 206, p. 242.
- Appendiculata: Crustacea. By W.T. Calman. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. url p. 260.
- Records of the Indian Museum. Calcutta: Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, . 1907-1962. url , p. 2, p. 25, p. 6.
- Records of the Indian museum: Crustacea Decapoda reprints, 1910-1925. A collection of papers on crustacea from the Records of the Indian museum. Calcutta, [Pub. by order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum], 1910-25. url p. 25.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:
- National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
- National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections
- The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Galathea II, Danish Deep Sea Expedition 1950-52.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4799609
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-660222
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 660222
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 663877
Footnotes
- Mean = -787.380 meters (-2,583.268 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,003.640 based on 42 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
