Decapoda - Anomura - Munididae - Trapezionida

Trapezionida arabica aff. (Tirmizi & Javed, 1992)

1 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Mayotte only?

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 80-80 m

Mayotte data
Munida aff. arabica - Poupin et al., 2022, Naturae, MNHN, https://doi.org/10.5852/naturae2022a8 : 148. - Mayotte, Passe Bateau, ‘Arche’, 23/06/2018, 80 m, photo G. Barathieu (Mesophotic). Some affinity with M. arabica from off Somalia (50-60 m) (shape of dhela) but not this species. Probably a new species (?new genus, com. pers. E. Macpherson, 2020).
KWD - Mesophotic, Undetermined, First for Mayotte, Spnov.

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