Description
Family Chirostylidae
Telson bent under the abdomen; not likely to be found in situations shallower than 900 m.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex 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
()
- Class:
Malacostraca
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
()
- Grobben, 1892
- Superorder:
Eucarida
()
- Calman, 1904
- Order:
Decapoda
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Decapods
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
()
- Burkenroad, 1963
- Infraorder:
Anomura
()
- Macleay, 1838
- Superfamily:
Galatheoidea
()
- Family:
Chirostylidae
()
- Genus:
Munidopsis
()
- Specific name:
curvirostris
- Scientific name: - Munidopsis curvirostris
- Specific name:
curvirostris
- Genus:
Munidopsis
(
- Family:
Chirostylidae
(
- Superfamily:
Galatheoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Anomura
(
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
(
- Order:
Decapoda
(
- Superorder:
Eucarida
(
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
(
- Class:
Malacostraca
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Munidopsis
There are approximately 99 species in this genus:
M. abbreviata · M. abdominalis · M. abyssicola · M. acuminata · M. africana · M. alaminos · M. albatrossae · M. alvisca · M. antonii · M. aries · M. armata · M. aspera · M. bairdii · M. barbarae · M. beringana · M. bermudezi · M. bispinata · M. bispinoculata · M. cascadia · M. centrina · M. ceratophthalma · M. ceratophthalmus · M. chuni · M. cidaris · M. ciliata · M. crassa · M. cubensis · M. curvirostra · M. curvirostris · M. dasypus · M. depressa · M. diomedeae · M. edwardsii · M. erinacea · M. erinaceus · M. expansa · M. gilli · M. glabra · M. granosa · M. granosicorium · M. gulfensis · M. hamata · M. hirsutissima · M. hystrix · M. kucki · M. latifrons · M. latirostris · M. lauensis · M. lentigo · M. lignaria · M. livida · M. longimanus · M. marianica · M. nitida · M. pallida · M. palmata · M. panamae · M. parfaiti · M. penescabra · M. platirostris · M. polita · M. polymorpha · M. producta · M. quadrata · M. recta · M. reqia · M. robusta · M. rostrata · M. rotundior · M. scabra · M. scabrosa · M. serratifrons · M. serricornis · M. sigsbei · M. similis · M. simplex · M. sonne · M. spinifera · M. spinoculata · M. spinosa · M. squamosa · M. starmer · M. stylirostris · M. stylirostris africana · M. subsquamosa · M. sundi · M. thieli · M. transtridens · M. tridentata · M. trifida · M. tropeorhyncha · M. tuftsi · M. tujisi · M. verrilli · M. verrucosa · M. vicina · M. wardeni · M. yaguinensis · M. yaquinensis
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 19, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 19, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Ifremer BIOCEAN database
