Decapoda - Anomura - Munididae - Gonionida

Gonionida shaula (Macpherson & de Saint Laurent, 2002)

4 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Baba (2005 : 270) - Océan Indien occidental, Zanzibar et Réunion. 280-510 m. Madagascar (as Munida kuboi).
(Macpherson et al., 2017, European Journal of Taxonomy, tab. 3) - Zanzibar, Madagascar, La Réunion, Mozambique, Madagascar. 263-510 m.
(Macpherson et al., 2023, Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos) - Mayotte - 460-473 m.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with corals (facultative)

Vertical range : Deep (more than 100 m) - Min-Max observed: 263-510 m

Mayotte data
Gonionida shaula - Macpherson, Rodríguez-Flores & Machordom, 2023, Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos: Appendix 1 - Cruise BIOMAGLO - Mayotte - Stn CP4845, 12°46’S, 44°58’E, 460-473 m, 30 January 2017.

Réunion data
Munida shaula Macpherson & de Saint Laurent, 2002 : 474, fig. 3a-c, e-h (coll. Marion Dufresne, MD32, plusieurs stations en 1982, La Réunion entre 280-510 m ; localité type Réunion, 410 m, MNHN Ga4573). - Baba, 2005 : 274 (Réunion dans la distribution). - Munida ?shaula - Réunion, March 2013, photos A. Sadayen transmitted by L. Bigot, from specimens in fish (Sparidae) stomach, 50-80 m. Pre-det from photo J. Poupin.

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)

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