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Issue: Vol. 3995 No. 1: 5 Aug. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.20
Page range: 241–251
Abstract views: 50
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of Munidopsis (Crustacea: Anomura: Munidopsidae) from the Kermadec and Louisville ridge systems off New Zealand 

Coasts and Oceans, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 14901 Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand.
Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia and School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.
Anomura Munidopsidae Munidopsis squat lobster deep-sea New Zealand Kermadec Ridge Havre Trough Louisville Ridge seamount

Abstract

Two new species of Munidopsis are described from the wider New Zealand region. Munidopsis bamberi sp. nov. is described from the Havre Trough adjacent to the Kermadec Volcanic Arc north-east of the New Zealand continental shelf, and is named in honour of Roger Bamber for his contributions to arthropod taxonomy and systematics. The second species is M. sculpo sp. nov. from Forde Seamount on the Louisville Ridge east of New Zealand. This brings the number of Munidopsis species known in New Zealand waters to 17 and a key to the New Zealand species is provided.