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H. Richard Carlson 



Northwest Fisheries Center Auke Bay Laboratory 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA 

 P.O. Box 155, Auke Bay, AK 99821 



OCCURRENCE OF TWO GALATHEID 

 CRUSTACEANS, MUNIDA FORCEPS AND 



MUNIDOPSIS BERMUDEZI, IN THE 



CHESAPEAKE BIGHT OF THE WESTERN 



NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN' ^ 



Living male specimens of Munida forceps A. 

 Milne-Edwards and Munidopsis bermudezi Chace 

 (Table 1) were collected on the continental slope 

 and rise south of Norfolk Canyon off the coast of 

 Virginia on 18-19 November 1974. An ovigerous 

 female M. bermudezi was also collected on 14 Sep- 

 tember 1975 in the Norfolk Canyon. They were 

 taken with a 15-m shrimp trawl (12-mm stretch 

 mesh inner liner) towed from the RV James M. 

 Gillis (University of Miami, Florida). 



Munida forceps has been reported from 80 to 

 338 m within the Gulf of Mexico and in the south- 



'Research supported by National Science Foundation Grant 

 GA-37561, J. A. Musick, Principal Investigator and by U.S. 

 Department of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service 

 Contract No. 03-4-043-353 for C.E.L. and P.A.H. participation. 



^Contribution No. 717, Virginia Institute of Marine Science. 



western Atlantic between lat. 22°46.5' and 

 26°37.0'N (Chace 1940, 1942; Springer and Bullis 

 1956; Bullis and Thompson 1965). Our find is 

 consistent with the previously reported depth 

 range, but it extends the geographic range of 

 the species northward by 10° latitude. 



Munidopsis bermudezi has been reported from 

 the coast of Cuba (lat. 21°19'N, long. 76°05'W) at a 

 depth of 2,654 m (Chace 1940, 1942), the Gulf of 

 Mexico (lat. 25°50.5'N, long. 94°27'W) at 3,294 m 

 (Pequegnat and Pequegnat 1970), and north of the 

 Azores (lat. 45°26'N, long. 25°45'W) at 3,171 m 

 (Sivertsen and Holthuis 1956). 



The Munida forceps sample also included the 

 galatheids M. iris A. Milne-Edwards and M. lon- 

 gipes A. Milne-Edwards and other decapods in- 

 cluding Bathynectes superbus (Costa), Cancer 

 borealis Stimpson, C. irroratus Say, Homarus 

 americanus H. Milne Edwards, and penaeidean 

 and caridean shrimps. The association of M. for- 

 ceps with M. iris and M. longipes in our sample is 

 previously unreported. Some previous records 

 have shown associations with M. stimpsoni A. 

 Milne-Edwards (Chace 1942) and with M. flinti 

 Benedict and M. irrasa A. Milne-Edwards 

 (Milne-Edwards 1880 from Pequegnat and 

 Pequegnat 1970). Others (Benedict 1902; Bullis 

 and Thompson 1965; Pequegnat and Pequegnat 

 1970) have not specified association of M. forceps 

 with other galatheids. 



Table l. — Station and morphometric data for Munida forceps 

 and Munidopsis bermudezi captured near Norfolk Canyon off 

 the coast of Virginia. Length and width measurements in mil- 

 limeters. 



Item 



Munida 

 forceps 



Male 



Munidopsis bermudezi 



Male 



Female 



Station 

 Collection 

 Location, lat. 



long. 

 Date of collection 

 Depth (m) 



Bottom temperature ("C) 

 Bottom salinity ( :. ) 

 Total lengtti (rostral tip to 



postenor margin of telson) 

 Carapace width, anterior 

 posterior 

 Carapace length (orbit to 



posterior margin) 

 Carapace length (including 



rostrum) 

 Cheliped (right) length 

 Carpus length 

 Merus length 

 Propodus length 

 Propodus width 

 Dactylus length 

 Second left pereopod length 



79 



C74-499 

 36°43.2N 

 74=38.0W 

 Nov. 1974 

 220-310 

 10.6 



34 

 7.9 

 10.4 



13.5 



18.5 

 45 



4.0 

 15.2 

 25.6 



4.5 

 15.1 

 28.8 



86 



C74-506 

 36M1.6'N 

 73°47.0W 

 Nov. 1974 

 2,620-2,650 

 3.0 

 34.82 



81.4 

 28.4 

 31.0 



335 



44.8 

 42.4 



8.5 

 14.5 

 19.3 



8.8 

 10.5 

 48.7 



35 



C74-168 

 36°57.9'N 

 73^21. 5'W 

 Sept. 1975 

 2,915-2,955 

 2.3 

 35.11 



83.2 

 28.8 

 31.5 



335 



43.8 

 40.8 



7.5 

 13.0 

 14.3 



8.0 



8.3 

 46.5 



462 



