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lateral margin; carpus spiny except on ventral 

 surface; palm strongly spiny on mesial and 

 lateral surfaces, less so dorsally but with scat- 

 tered rugosities there as well; fingers about as 

 long as palm, spooned, especially at tips, pre- 

 hensile edges almost entire but imperceptibly 

 crenulate, tips close fitting. 



Walking legs rather long, first walking leg 

 (Fig. Ig) reaching almost to tip of chela, second 



and third walking legs reaching almost to base of 

 dactyl on preceding leg (right second walking leg 

 missing from holotype); corresponding articles of 

 respective legs approximately equal in length 

 except for meri which decrease posteriorly; each 

 merus with spiny dorsal crest ending in strong 

 distal spine; prehensile surface with 2 rows of 

 rugae, spines, and tubercles; carpi each with 

 longitudinal dorsal and lateral rib, each ending in 



Figure 2. — Outlines of telson plates and distal margin of abdominal segment 6, lines on a indicate pattern for length (L) 

 and width (W) measurements: a, Munidopsis mariaiiica, paratype + USNM 240201; b. M. tuftsi, holotype o . USNM 

 171336; c, M. subsquamosa, syntype BM 88:33; d, M. subsquamosa aculeata, holotype (/ , BM 88:33; e, M. crassa 

 holotype V, USNM 8536; /, M. lignaria, holotype (/, USNM 240202; g, M. ciliata. V, USNM 151856, Celebes, 

 Indonesia; h. M. nitida, r/ , USNM 150580, St. Croix Basin, Caribbean Sea, note atypically sinuous terminal margin on 

 median lobe of segment 6; i, M. granosicorium, holotype V, USNM 240205. 



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