Galapagos Species Database
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Munidopsis hystrix
Langosta, Squat lobster
From 436- to 1244-m depth.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Galatheoidea
Family
Munidopsidae
Genus
Munidopsis
Species
hystrix
Taxon category: Accepted
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
- 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.
- 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 hystrix", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25328. Accessed 1 November 2026.