On some squat lobsters from India (Decapoda, Anomura, Munididae), with description of a new species of Paramunida Baba, 1988

By

Macpherson, Enrique
Chan, Tin-Yam
Biju Kumar, Appukuttannair
Rodriguez-Flores, Paula

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

965

Pages

17--36

Subjects

Agononida , Indian Ocean , integrative taxonomy , molecular characters , Morphology , Munida , new record

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.965.55213

 

Abstract

Squat lobster specimens belonging to the family Munididae were recently collected along the southwestern coast of the mainland of India and in the Andaman Islands. The specimens belong to two known species,Agononida prolixa(Alcock, 1894) andMunida compactaMacpherson, 1997, and a new species,Paramunida bineeshisp. nov. We here redescribeA. prolixaand describe and figure the new species.Munida compactais newly recorded from India, and we figure the live coloration. In addition, molecular and phylogenetic analyses of two mitochondrial markers (16S rRNA and COI) revealed the phylogenetic relationships ofM. compactaandP. bineeshisp. nov.with their most closely related congeners. The genetic similarity among the individuals ofM. compactafrom different locations is also addressed.