Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Anomura > Superfamily Galatheoidea > Family Munididae

Munida Leach, 1821

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Munida intermedia A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1899
Munida perarmata A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1894
Munida rugosa (Fabricius, 1775)
Munida sarsi Huus, 1935
Munida tenuimana G.O. Sars, 1872

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: チュウコシオリエビ属

Literature

original description

Leach, W.E. (1821). Galatéadées, Galateadæ. (Crust.). In: Cuvier, F., Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans lequel on trait Méthodiquement des Différens étres de la Nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement a l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la Médecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Arts. Suivi d'une biographie des plus Célèbres Naturalistes. Ouvrage destiné aux médecins, aux agriculteurs, aux commerçans, aux artistes, aux manufacturiers, et à tous ceux qui ont intérêt à connoître les productions de la nature, leurs caractères génériques et spécifi ques, leur lieu natal, leurs propiétés et leurs usages. Vol. 18. F. G. Levrault et Le Normant, Strasbourg et Paris. Pp. 49–56 [front matter dated 1820, published Febr-March 1821; see Clark & Harrison (2021)].

basis of record

Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292

additional source

Tirmizi, N.M.; Javaid, W. (1992). Two new species of Munida Leach, 1820 (Decapoda, Anomura, Galatheidae) from the Indian Ocean. Crustaceana. 62(2): 312-318.

additional source

Machordom, A.; Ahyong, S. T.; Andreakis, N.; Baba, K.; Buckley, D.; García-Jiménez, R.; McCallum, A. W.; Rodríguez-Flores, P. C.; Macpherson, E. (2022). Deconstructing the crustacean squat lobster genus Munida to reconstruct the evolutionary history and systematics of the family Munididae (Decapoda, Anomura, Galatheoidea). Invertebrate Systematics. 36(10): 92970.

additional source

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Munida Leach, 1821. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106835

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

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2023-10-18 by Shane Ahyong

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