Zoosystematics and Evolution (Pensoft)
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Color in Life: The body of this living deep-sea dwarf crab is uniformly orange.
This deep-sea species is observed solitary on soft sediments characterized by a very fine, flat, and smooth substrate.
It is found in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in the eastern and western Pacific, at depths between 1,400 and 3,800 meters.
Reference:
Gallardo-Salamanca MA, Rodríguez-Flores PC, Macpherson E (2026) Squat lobsters of the family Munidopsidae Ortmann, 1898 (Decapoda, Galatheoidea) from the seamounts of the Southeast Pacific Ocean ridges. Zoosystematics and Evolution 102(4): 949-972. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.102.196673
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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This deep-sea species is observed solitary on soft sediments characterized by a very fine, flat, and smooth substrate.
It is found in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in the eastern and western Pacific, at depths between 1,400 and 3,800 meters.
Reference:
Gallardo-Salamanca MA, Rodríguez-Flores PC, Macpherson E (2026) Squat lobsters of the family Munidopsidae Ortmann, 1898 (Decapoda, Galatheoidea) from the seamounts of the Southeast Pacific Ocean ridges. Zoosystematics and Evolution 102(4): 949-972. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.102.196673
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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