Decapoda - Anomura - Munididae - Trapezionida

Trapezionida barbeti (Galil, 1999)

4 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Baba (2005 : 260) - Flic en Flac, Mauritius, 55 m, La Réunion, NW Madagascar, and Aldabra, 28–115 m

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 28-115 m

Mayotte data
Munida barbeti - Poupin et al., 2022, Naturae, MNHN, https://doi.org/10.5852/naturae2022a8 : 148. - Mayotte, scuba dive, 75-95 m. Photo only, Gabriel Barathieu, June 2018. Det. from photo only, to be confirmed with specimen(s) [1 sp. examined in 2022, coll. MESOMAY3, det. confirmed by J. Poupin).
Munida barbeti - Poupin, 2022 - Determination of mesophotic Crustacea (70-90 m) around Mayotte collected during MESOMAY3 (11/12-2021), sample 31a, 80 m, at
http://poupin.joseph.free.fr/pdf/Poupin-2022-crustaces-mesophotiques-Mayotte-Mesomay3-2021.pdf

KWD - Mesophotic, Det OK, First for Mayotte

Réunion data
Munida barbeti - Macpherson & de Saint Laurent, 2002: 468 (La Réunion, MD32, st DR91, 28/08/1982, 95-115 m, 19°45.5'S, 54°07'E, 1 male 4.0 mm, NW Madagascar, Aldabra, between 28-41 m et 95-115 m). - Baba, 2005 : 260 (Réunion, dans la distribution). - Also pers. comm. A. Diringer, January 2013 "observed 20 years ago in St. Gilles, Réunion, caught by a fishermen, with similar coloration than for my photo taken at Mauritius 50 m (see photo)".

Comment(s) on data
New Munididae genera in 2022 are from: Macpherson & Baba in Machordom, Ahyong, Andreakis, Baba, Buckley, Garcia-Jimenez, McCallum, Rodriguez-Flores & Macpherson, 2022, Invertebrate Systematics 36(10) 926-970 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS22013

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database