Babamunida is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Munididae.[1][2][3] The genus occurs in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans,[2][3] with the greatest diversity in the Pacific (8 species).[3]
| Babamunida | |
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| Babamunida callista | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Munididae |
| Genus: | Babamunida Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2008 |
| Type species | |
| Munida callista Macpherson, 1994
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Species edit
There are twelve recognized species:[1]
- Babamunida bellula Macpherson, Rodriguez-Flores & Machordom, 2020
- Babamunida brucei (Baba, 1974)
- Babamunida callista (Macpherson, 1994)
- Babamunida coltroi (Melo-Filho & Melo, 2006)
- Babamunida debrae Baba, 2011[4]
- Babamunida forceps (A. Milne Edwards, 1880)
- Babamunida hystrix (Macpherson & de Saint Laurent, 1991)
- Babamunida javieri (Macpherson, 1994)
- Babamunida kanaloa Schnabel, Martin & Moffitt, 2009
- Babamunida obesa (Faxon, 1893)
- Babamunida plexaura (Macpherson & de Saint Laurent, 1991)
- Babamunida robusta (A. Milne Edwards, 1880)
Babamunida coltroi and Babamunida robusta are included here pending a more careful study.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b "Babamunida Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2008". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Babamunida Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2008". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ a b c d Machordom, Annie; Ahyong, Shane T.; Andreakis, Nikos; Baba, Keiji; Buckley, David; García-Jiménez, Ricardo; McCallum, Anna W.; Rodríguez-Flores, Paula C. & Macpherson, Enrique (2022). "Deconstructing the crustacean squat lobster genus Munida to reconstruct the evolutionary history and systematics of the family Munididae (Decapoda, Anomura, Galatheoidea)". Invertebrate Systematics. 36 (10): 926–970. doi:10.1071/IS22013. hdl:10261/280688.
- ^ Baba, Keiji (2011). "Babamunida debrae, a new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheoidea: Munididae) from the Hawaiian Islands". Zootaxa. 2812 (1): 21–27. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2812.1.2.
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