Decapoda - Anomura - Munididae - Iridonida

Iridonida iris (A. Milne Edwards, 1880)



World Distribution
Poupin (1994, Etudes & Thčses) - Western Atlantic. United States, Massachusetts to Amazonia. Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe, Barbados). 43-613 m.
Melo (1999: 188) - Including Brazil.

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

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 43-613 m

Lesser Antilles data
Distribution: Lesser Antilles ICA (Guadeloupe, Barbados). 43-613 m. WA.
Munida iris A. Milne-Edwards, 1880a: 49, Barbados [R/V Blake, st. 274, 209 brasses, 382 m]. - A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1897: 21, Barbados [R/V Blake]. - Poupin, 1994: 35, Guadeloupe [R/V Polka, 382 m, det. E. Macpherson, MNHN]. - Baba et al., 2008: 101, Barbados [Catalog].
?Munida iris - Schmitt, 1924a:87, Barbados [with doubt, juveniles without chelipeds].

French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapŕ)
Munida iris – Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 9, Brazil Amapá [R/V Oregon, st. 2082, 1°51'N, 200 fathoms, 366 m]. — Takeda, 1983: 89, Suriname, French Guiana [85–540 m]. — Coelho et al., 2007: tab. 4, Brazil Amapá. — Corbari et al., 2015: 165–167, unnumbered tab., French Guiana [R/V Hermano Gines, July–October 2014, 30–800 m; Guyane 2014 Expedition, 4 lots in MNHN, det. E. Macpherson]. — Rodríguez-Flores et al., 2019: 2, French Guiana [in text – M. iris from French Guiana]. — Silva et al., 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 43–613 m.

Comment(s) on data
Munida iris A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (WA) is very close to Munida speciosa von Martens, 1878 (EA-MED) and cannot be separated confidently with molecular analysis. See Rodríguez-Flores et al. (2019; Marine Biodiversity) - Fig. 3 and "M. iris from the western Atlantic seems to be the closest relative of M. speciosa. Both species present low genetic distances, and the species hypotheses tested through species delimitation methods were not fully congruent. However, due to subtle but constant morphological differences and the large geographic distances that separate their distribution areas, both M. iris and M. speciosa are considered here as valid species."

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