WoRMS taxon details
Munidopsis aspera (Henderson, 1885)
392482 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:392482)
accepted
Species
Elasmonotus asper Henderson, 1885 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Munidopsis alfredolaguardai Hendrickx & Ayon-Parente, 2013 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Munidopsis townsendi Benedict, 1902 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Elasmonotus asper Henderson, 1885) Henderson, J. R. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Galatheidae collected during the "Challenger" expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5. 16: 407-421., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29996143 [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Munidopsis aspera (Henderson, 1885). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=392482 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Munidopsis townsendi Benedict, 1902) Benedict, J. E. (1902). Description of a new genus and forty six new species of crustaceans of the family Galatheidae with a list of the known marine species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 26: 243-334. [details]
original description (of Elasmonotus asper Henderson, 1885) Henderson, J. R. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Galatheidae collected during the "Challenger" expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5. 16: 407-421., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29996143 [details]
original description (of Munidopsis alfredolaguardai Hendrickx & Ayon-Parente, 2013) Hendrickx, M. E.; Ayon-Parente, M. (2013). A new species of Munidopsis (Anomura, Galatheoidea, Munidopsidae) from the Gulf of California, Western Mexico. Crustaceana. 86: 1304-1315. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.; Ahyong, S.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa. 1905: 1-220. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Elasmonotus asper Henderson, 1885) Henderson, J. R. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Galatheidae collected during the "Challenger" expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5. 16: 407-421., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29996143 [details]
original description (of Munidopsis alfredolaguardai Hendrickx & Ayon-Parente, 2013) Hendrickx, M. E.; Ayon-Parente, M. (2013). A new species of Munidopsis (Anomura, Galatheoidea, Munidopsidae) from the Gulf of California, Western Mexico. Crustaceana. 86: 1304-1315. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.; Ahyong, S.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa. 1905: 1-220. [details] Available for editors
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú. 27(1-2): 8-207., available online at https://repositorio.imarpe.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12958/2190 [details]
additional source Rodríguez-Flores, P. C.; Seid, C. A.; Rouse, G. W.; Giribet, G. (2023). Cosmopolitan abyssal lineages? A systematic study of East Pacific deep-sea squat lobsters (Decapoda: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 37(1): 14-60., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is22030 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú. 27(1-2): 8-207., available online at https://repositorio.imarpe.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12958/2190 [details]
additional source Rodríguez-Flores, P. C.; Seid, C. A.; Rouse, G. W.; Giribet, G. (2023). Cosmopolitan abyssal lineages? A systematic study of East Pacific deep-sea squat lobsters (Decapoda: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 37(1): 14-60., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is22030 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
- From editor or global species database
- Gulf of California
- South Pacific Ocean
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Munidopsis aspera)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Munidopsis townsendi Benedict, 1902)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (20 records)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Munidopsis aspera)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Munidopsis townsendi Benedict, 1902)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (20 records)
To ITIS