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New species of the deep-sea squat lobster genus Eumunida Smith, 1883 (Decapoda: Anomura: Eumunididae) from the Arabian Sea off southwestern India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13634/
https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4590.4.2
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4590.4.2
 
Title New species of the deep-sea squat lobster genus Eumunida Smith, 1883
(Decapoda: Anomura: Eumunididae) from the Arabian Sea off southwestern
India
 
Creator Komai, Tomoyuki
Chakraborty, Rekha D
Purushothaman, P
Maheswarudu, G
 
Subject Crustacean Fisheries
Lobsters
Fish Genetics
Fish Taxonomy
 
Description A new species of the squat lobster genus Eumunida Smith, 1883 (Chirostyloidea: Eumunididae), E. multispina, is described
and illustrated primarily on the basis of two male specimens from the Arabian Sea off the Kerala State, southwestern
India, at depths of 250–400 m. One specimen from Lakshadweep, previously identified with E. funambulus Gordon,
1930, is also referred to the new species. The new species is morphologically most similar to E. funambulus among the
29 known congeners, but the presence of four epigastric spines and more numerous lateral spines on the carapace (four on
the anterolateral and seven to 10 on the branchial margins) immediately distinguish the new species from E. funambulus.
Genetic analysis using the mitochondrial COI and 16S rRNA markers also indicates that the new species is distinct from
congenerics for which the sequence data are available.
 
Publisher Magnolia Press
 
Date 2019
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13634/1/Zootaxa_2019_Rekha%20Devi%20Chakraborty_New%20species%20of%20the%20deep-sea%20squat%20lobster%20genus%20Eumunida%20Smith.pdf
Komai, Tomoyuki and Chakraborty, Rekha D and Purushothaman, P and Maheswarudu, G (2019) New species of the deep-sea squat lobster genus Eumunida Smith, 1883 (Decapoda: Anomura: Eumunididae) from the Arabian Sea off southwestern India. Zootaxa, 4590 (4). pp. 440-456.