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Issue: Vol. 2812 No. 1: 8 Apr. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-04-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2812.1.2
Page range: 21–27
Abstract views: 81
PDF downloaded: 23

Babamunida debrae, a new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheoidea: Munididae) from the Hawaiian Islands

Kumamoto University, Faculty of Education, 2-40-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
Crustacea Anomura Munididae Galatheoidea squat lobster Babamunida taxonomy Hawaii shallow-water

Abstract

A new species of squat lobster, Babamunida debrae, was found in shallow waters of the west coast of Hawai‘i. It is readily distinguished from all the other species of the genus by the presence of a pair of spines on the second abdominal tergite. Babamunida debrae is the second species of the genus from Hawaii and seventh species of the genus from the Indo-Pacific.

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