Species Munida endeavourae Ahyong & Poore, 2004

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• Munida endeavourae Ahyong, S.T. & Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia. Zootaxa 472: 3-76 [29-32, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E3142 ♂ (Collected at 860 m depth), SE of Green Cape, New South Wales [37°30'S, 150°33'E].
  Paratype(s) NMV J17074 ♀ (Collected at 930 m depth. On rock, rubble, sand, clay), South of Point Hinks, Victoria [38°19.6'S, 149°24.3'E]; NMV J23881 ♀ (Collected at 930 m depth. Rock, rubble clay, sand, SLOPE 33), South of Point Hicks, Victoria [38°19.6'S, 149°24.3E]; NMV J17097 2♀ (Collected at 930 m depth. Sediment - rock, rubble clay, sand, SLOPE 32), South of Point Hicks, Victoria [38°19.6'S, 149°24.3'E]; NMV J17084 ovig. female (Collected at 1500 m depth; sediment type - compacted clay; SLOPE 32), South of Point Hicks, Victoria [38°25.00'S, 149°0.00'E]; NMV J16030 4♀ (Collected at 1000 m depth), South of Point Hicks, Victoria [38°21.90'S, 149°20.00'E]; NMV J52073 ♀ (Collected at 1500 m depth), Victoria [38°27.64'S, 149°31.58'E]; NMV J17075 2♂, 1 ovig.♀ (Collected at 1169 depth), 63 km south of Point Hicks, Victoria [38°22.61'S, 149°20.20'E]; NMV J52074 ♂ (Collected at 1000 m depth), Victoria [38°20.24'S, 149°38.53'E]; SAMA C6076 ♂ (Collected at 1135 m depth), 91 km NW of Currie Harbour, Tasmania [39°43.09'S, 143°00.57'E]; SAMA C6075 ♂ (Collected at 970 - 1120 m depth), 79 km SE of South East Cape, Tasmania [44°09.2'S, 147°31.8'E].
• Munida grievei Vereshchaka, A.L. 2005. New species of Galatheidae (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheoidea) from volcanic seamounts off northern New Zealand. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85(1): 137-142 [140-141, fig. 3, tab 1-2].

  Type data:

   Holotype NIWA H-881, NIWA 4064 ♀ (Col: Tangaroa Expedition Station 0107/228, 24/05/2001, 977-655 m depth), offshore NE New Zealand, SW Pacific [36°08.36' S, 178°11.77' W - 36°08.57' S, 178°11'.50 W].

  Secondary source:

   Ahyong, S.T. 2007. Decapod Crustacea collected by the NORFANZ Expedition: Galtheidae and Polychelidae. Zootaxa 1593: 1-54 [25].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Southeast Australia from southeast of Green Cape to Tasmania and northern New Zealand, at depths of 620-1700 m

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Deep water.

Extra Ecological Information

At depths of 620-1700 m; on rock, clay rubble, sand substrate

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	16-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
08-Apr-2015		24-Feb-2011	MOVED
		07-Dec-2010	ADDED