• Gonionida Machordom, A.; Ahyong, S. T.; Andreakis, N.; Baba, K.; Buckley, D.; García-Jiménez, R.; McCallum, A. W.; Rodríguez-Flores, P. C.; Macpherson, E. 2022. Deconstructing the crustacean squat lobster genus Munida to reconstruct the evolutionary history and systematics of the family Munididae (Decapoda, Anomura, Galatheoidea). Invertebrate Systematics 36(10): 926-970 [956].

  Type species:

   Munida asprosoma Ahyong & Poore, 2004 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

History of changes

• Munida abrolhos McCallum, A., Ahyong, S. & Andreakis, N. 2021. New species of squat lobsters of the genus Munida from Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 80: 113-152 [115].
  Zoobank Registration Number:http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:14DA5265-E0E5-47B5-B4B0-93296A355921

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C78556 ♀ (700–704 m, 2 December 2005), Abrolhos, WA [29° 00.594' S, 113° 42.78' E to 29° 01.512' S, 113°43.32' E].
  Paratype(s) WAM C78557 ♂ (658–754 m, 10 December 2005), Ningaloo South, WA [22° 03.57' S, 113° 43.74' E to 22° 04.026' S, 113° 43.26' E]; NMV numerous various.

Generic Combinations

• Gonionida abrolhos (McCallum, Ahyong & Andreakis, 2021).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southwest Shelf Transition (30)

History of changes

• Munida aequalis Ahyong, S.T. & Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia. Zootaxa 472: 3-76 [17-20, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P42267 ♂ (Collected at 548 m depth), NE of Tweed Heads, Queensland [27°57'S, 154°03'E].
  Paratype(s) AM P42271 ♂ (Collected at 502 m), SE of Cape Byron, New South Wales [28°37'S, 153°50'E]; AM P26574 5♂, 2♀ (Collected at 503 m depth), East of Wooli, New South Wales [29°52-51'S, 153°43'E]; AM P31430 ♀ (Collected at 153 m depth), SE of Byron Bay, New South Wales [28°41-44'S, 153°51'E]; AM P26573 ♀ (Collected at 503 m depth), East of Wooli, New South Wales [29°52-51'S, 153°43'E]; AM P31488 ♀ (Collected at 225 m depth), East of Wooli, New South Wales [29°55'S, 153°42'E]; AM P31428 4♂, 1♀ (Collected at 437 m depth), NE of Wooli, New South Wales [29°47-49'S, 153°44-43'E]; AM P31431 31♂, 19♀ (Collected at 150 m depth), SE of Cape Byron, New South Wales [28°42'S, 153°51'E]; AM P42266 13♂, 6♀ (Collected at 475 m depth), SE of Yamba, New South Wales [29°40'S, 153°47'E].

  Type locality references:

  Ahyong, S.T. & Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia. Zootaxa 472: 3-76 [17].

Generic Combinations

• Gonionida aequalis (Ahyong & Poore, 2004).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Deep water.

Extra Ecological Information

150-548 m depth

History of changes