Munidopsis tafrii
| Munidopsis tafrii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Munidopsidae |
| Genus: | Munidopsis |
| Species: | M. tafrii
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| Binomial name | |
| Munidopsis tafrii Osawa, Lin & Chan, 2006
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Munidopsis tafrii is a species of squat lobster first found in Taiwanese waters at depths greater than 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). It resembles M. ceratophthalma, however its carapace morphology distinguishes it from its cogenerate species.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Osawa, Masayuki, Chia-Wei Lin, and Tin-Yam Chan. "Munidopsis (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from the abyssal depths of Taiwan, with description of one new species." Journal of Crustacean Biology 26.3 (2006): 420-428.
Further reading
[edit]- Osawa, Masayuki, Chia-Wei Lin, and Tim-Yam Chan. "Species of Galacantha and Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from the deep-waters off Taiwan, with the description of two new species." Scientia Marina72.1 (2008): 37-57.
- Macpherson, Enrique. Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae). Magnolia Press, 2007.
- Osawa, Masayuki, Chia-Wei Lin, and Tin-Yam Chan. "Additional records of Chirostylus and Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheoidea) from Taiwan." The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 19 (2008): 91-98.
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