Galapagos Species Database

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Eumunida subsolanus Baba & Wicksten, 2019

Langosta, Lobsters

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Malacostraca

Order
Decapoda

Suborder
Pleocyemata

Superfamily
Chirostyloidea

Family
Eumunididae

Genus
Eumunida

Species
subsolanus

Taxon category: Accepted

MCCDRS-9343

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos Island in East Wolf (Baba & Wicksten, 2019)

References

  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Baba, K. Wicksten, M. (2019) Chirostyloidean squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the Galapagos Islands Zootaxa, 4564(2), 391–421. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4564.2.5
  • Salinas-de-León, P. Martí-Puig, P., Buglass, S., Arnés-Urgellés, C., Rastoin-Laplane, E., Creemers, M., Cairns, S., Fisher, C., O Hara, T., Ott, B., Raineault, N. A., Reiswig, H., Rouse, G., Rowley, S., Shank, T. M., Suarez, J., Watling, L., Wicksten, M. K., & Marsh, L. (2020) Characterization of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna of the Galapagos Islands Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70744-1
  • Arnés-Urgellés, C. Buglass, S., Ahyong, S. T., Salinas-de-León, P., Wicksten, M. K., & Marsh, L. (2020) Arthropoda; crustacea; decapoda of deep-sea volcanic habitats of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Tropical Eastern Pacific Biodiversity Data Journal, 8.

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