Species Gonionida aequalis (Ahyong & Poore, 2004)

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• 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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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