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| Raymunida shraddhanandi Munidopsis bengala and M. kadal Tiwari, Padate, Cubelio & Osawa, 2022 |
ABSTRACT
We report four squat lobster species of the genera Raymunida Macpherson and Machordom, 2000 (Munididae) and Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Munidopsidae) from the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone. The genus Raymunida is recorded for the first time from Indian waters, including a new species Raymunida shraddhanandi sp. nov. and R. vittata Macpherson, 2009 based on material from the Andaman Sea. Raymunida shraddhanandi sp. nov. differs from its closest congener R. formasanus Lin, Chan and Chu, 2004 in the armatures of the anterior branchial carapace region, antennal peduncle and third maxilliped merus, and the length of the fourth pereopod. Two new species of the genus Munidopsis, referred to the Anoplonotus group, are described from the south-western Bay of Bengal and the south-eastern Arabian Sea. Munidopsis bengala sp. nov. and M. kadal sp. nov. are distinguished from all of their allies – M. bruta Macpherson, 2007, M. shulerae Vázquez-Bader, Gracia and Lemaitre, 2014, and M. truculenta Macpherson and Segonzac, 2005 – by the unarmed dorsodistal margin of the third maxilliped merus and the relative length of the antennal peduncle, respectively.
KEYWORDS: new record, new species, fauna, Indian ocean
Raymunida shraddhanandi sp. nov.
Munidopsis bengala sp. nov.
M. kadal sp. nov.
Shivam Tiwari, Vinay P. Padate, Sherine S. Cubelio and Masayuki Osawa. 2022. Squat Lobsters of the Genera Raymunida Macpherson & Machordom, 2000 and Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea) from the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone, with Descriptions of Three New Species. Journal of Natural History. 56(41-44); 1819-1839. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2138600 [29 Nov 2022]
