Galapagos Species Database
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Munidopsis aspera
Langosta, Squat lobster
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Galatheoidea
Family
Munidopsidae
Genus
Munidopsis
Species
aspera
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Elasmonotus asper Henderson, 1885, Munidopsis alfredolaguardai Hendrickx & Ayon-Parente, 2013, Munidopsis townsendi Benedict, 1902 (Ahyong, S. et al, 2024). (M. townsendi) Holotype USNM 26167.
Origin: Native
- Ahyong, S. Boyko, C.B., Bailly, N., Bernot, J., Bieler, R, ... Williams, D.M., Williams, G., Wilson, R., Witkowski, J., Wyatt, N., Wylezich, C., Xavier, J., Xu, K., Zanol, J., Zeidler, W., Zhao, Z., Zullini, A. (2024) World Register of Marine Species Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. doi:10.14284/170
- Benedict, J. E Hinds, W. E., & Dall, W. H. (1902) Description of a new genus and forty-six new species of crustaceans of the family Galatheidae, with a list of the known marine species. (Vol. 26, No. 1311-1312). US Government Printing Office.
- Rodríguez-Flores, P. C. Seid, C. A., Rouse, G. W., & Giribet, G. (2023) Cosmopolitan abyssal lineages? A systematic study of East Pacific deep-sea squat lobsters (Decapoda: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 37(1), 14–60. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS22030
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"Galapagos Species Database, Munidopsis aspera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25327. Accessed 5 November 2026.