Plesionida is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Munididae.[2] As of 2017[update], it contains the following species:[3]
- Plesionida aliena (Macpherson, 1996) — New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga, 445–545 m (1,460–1,788 ft).[4][5]
- Plesionida aurelia Ahyong, Taylor & McCallum, 2013 — Northwestern Australia, 393–451 m (1,289–1,480 ft).[6]
- Plesionida concava Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2009 — Solomon Islands, 399–427 m (1,309–1,401 ft).[7]
- Plesionida psila Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996 — New Caledonia, 590–613 m (1,936–2,011 ft).[1]
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The generic name is a combination of the Greek plesios, meaning "near" and the final syllables of Munida. Its gender is feminine.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Baba, Keiji; de Saint Laurent, Michèle (1996). "Crustacea Decapoda: revision of the genus Bathymunida Balss, 1914, and description of six new related genera (Galatheidae)". In Crosnier, Alain (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom, Volume 15. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 168. Paris. pp. 494–496.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Ahyong, Shane T.; Baba, Keiji; Macpherson, Enrique; Poore, Gary C. B. (2010). "A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.4. hdl:10261/42217.
- ^ Macpherson, Enrique (2017). "Plesionida Baba & Saint Laurent, 1996". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ^ Macpherson, Enrique (1996). "Crustacea Decapoda: New records of species of the genera Munida Leach, 1820 and Paramunida Baba, 1988 (Galatheidae) from New Caledonia, with the descriptions of three new species" (PDF). In Crosnier, Alain (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom, Volume 15. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 168. Paris. pp. 429–430.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Macpherson, Enrique (2004). "Species of the genus Munida Leach, 1820 and related genera from Fiji and Tonga (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae)". In Héros, Virginie; Strong, Ellen (eds.). Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 23. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 191. Paris. pp. 290–291.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Ahyong, Shane T.; Taylor, Joanne; McCallum, Anna W. (2013). "New species and new records of deepwater munidid squat lobsters from north-western Australia: Onconida, Bathymunida, Crosnierita, Plesionida and Torbenella". Zootaxa. 3734 (1): 32–35. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3734.1.3. PMID 25277892.
- ^ Cabezas, Patricia; Macpherson, Enrique; Machordom, Annie (2009). "Morphological and molecular description of new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae) from the Solomon and Fiji Islands (South-West Pacific)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156 (3): 482–484. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00492.x.
Further reading edit
- Baba, Keiji; Macpherson, Enrique; Poore, Gary C. B.; Ahyong, Shane T.; Bermudez, Adriana; Cabezas, Patricia; Lin, Chia-Wei; Nizinski, Martha; Rodrigues, Celso; Schnabel, Kareen E. (2008). "Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1905: 177. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1.
External links edit
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