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 crassa Smith, 1885

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	Smith, S.I. (1885). On some new or little known decapod Crustacea, from recent Fish Commission dredgings off the east coast of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 7: 493-511 [imprint 1884].
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	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.
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 crassa Smith, 1885. 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:107174