Deep-Sea taxon details
Munidopsis nitida (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880)
392568 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:392568)
accepted
Species
Munidopsis ciliata Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Milne-Edwards, A. (1880). Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea,1877, '78, '79, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N. commanding VIII. Études préliminaires sur les Crustacés. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 8(2): 1-68, pls. 1-2. [details] 
Holotype MCZ 4749, geounit Guadalupe Island
Holotype MCZ 4749, geounit Guadalupe Island [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Munidopsis nitida (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=392568 on 2026-08-02
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Munidopsis nitida (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=392568 on 2026-08-02
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(of ) Milne-Edwards, A. (1880). Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea,1877, '78, '79, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N. commanding VIII. Études préliminaires sur les Crustacés. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 8(2): 1-68, pls. 1-2. [details]
original description (of Munidopsis ciliata Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. No. 21. Note on the results of the last season's deep-sea dredging. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 6) 7 (37): 1-19; 7 (38): 186-202; 7 (39): 258-272. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939109460605 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.; Ahyong, S.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1905: 1-220., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1 [details] Available for editors
additional source Felder, D.L., Álvarez, F.,; Goy, J.W.; Lemaitre, R. (2009). Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea, In: Felder, D.L., and Camp, D.K. (eds), Gulf of Mexico - Origins, Waters, and Biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity. Pp. 1019–1104 (Texas A&M University Press: College Station, Texas). , available online at https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/31408/31408.pdf [details]
original description (of Munidopsis ciliata Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. No. 21. Note on the results of the last season's deep-sea dredging. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 6) 7 (37): 1-19; 7 (38): 186-202; 7 (39): 258-272. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939109460605 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.; Ahyong, S.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1905: 1-220., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1 [details] Available for editors
additional source Felder, D.L., Álvarez, F.,; Goy, J.W.; Lemaitre, R. (2009). Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea, In: Felder, D.L., and Camp, D.K. (eds), Gulf of Mexico - Origins, Waters, and Biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity. Pp. 1019–1104 (Texas A&M University Press: College Station, Texas). , available online at https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/31408/31408.pdf [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype MCZ 4749, geounit Guadalupe Island [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 340-2620 m [details]Unreviewed
Depth range Deep (more than 100 m) [details]Habitat Hard bottom (rock and rubbles) [details]
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Munidopsis ciliata Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
To CRUSTA
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Munidopsis nitida)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (29 records)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Munidopsis ciliata Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
To CRUSTA
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Munidopsis nitida)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (29 records)
