Munidopsis serricornis explained

Munidopsis serricornis is a species of squat lobster. It is widely distributed in the world's oceans, being found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean (from Iceland and Norway to the Cape Verde Islands), the western Atlantic Ocean (from the United States to the Gulf of Mexico), and the Indo-Pacific (from Australia and the Malay Archipelago to Madagascar).^[1] It grows up to a carapace length of 20mm.^[2]

M. serricornis appears to be one of the most abundant megafauna species in the cold water coral reefs of southern Norway.^[3] It has also been observed in association with the gorgonian Acanthogorgia.^[4]

M. serricornis was the first species of the current genus Munidopsis to be described, when Sven Lovén described it (as Galathea serricornis) in 1852. It was described independently in 1857 under the name Galathea tridentata by Laurits Esmark.^[5]

Notes and References

Species of Galacantha and Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from the deep-waters off Taiwan, with the description of two new species . Masayuki Osawa, Chia-Wei Lin . Tin-Yam Chan . amp . . 72 . 1 . 2008 . 37–57 . 10.3989/scimar.2008.72n137. free .
Web site: Munidopsis serricornis – Trollhumrar . . Swedish . Matz Berggren . 2006 .
Cold-water corals on the Tisler Reef: preliminary observations on the dynamic reef environment . Marc Lavaleye . Gerard Duineveld . Tomas Lundälv . Martin White . Damien Guihen . Kostas Kiriakoulakis . George A. Wolff . amp . . 22 . 1 . 54–62 . 2009 . 2009-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023513/http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/ocean/org_geochem/22.1_lavaleye_1.6.pdf . 2016-03-04 . dead .
. 1095 . 1–60 . 2005 . Species of the genus Munidopsis (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the deep Atlantic Ocean, including cold-seep and hydrothermal vent areas . Enrique Macpherson . Michel Segonzac . amp .
Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) . . 1417 . 1–135 . 2007 . Enrique Macpherson.