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 Munidopsidae > Genus Munidopsis

Munidopsis acutispina Benedict, 1902

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Munidopsis*	Whiteaves, 1874	accepted genus name
*Elasmonotus*	A. Milne-Edwards, 1880	synonym
*Galathodes*	A Mine-Edwards, 1880	synonym
*Orophorhynchus*	A. Milne-Edwards, 1880	synonym

Literature

original description	Benedict, J. E. (1902). Description of a new genus and forty six new species of crustaceans of the family Galatheidae with a list of the known marine species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 26: 243-334.
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	Cubelio, S. S.; Tsuchida, S.; Watanabe, S. (2007). Vent associated Munidopsis (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from Brothers Seamount, Kermadec Arc, southwest Pacific, with description of one new species. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 27(3): 513-519.
additional source	Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.; Ahyong, S.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa. 1905: 1-220.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Munidopsis acutispina Benedict, 1902. 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:107169