Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Anomura - Galatheidae - Munida

Munida pasithea Macpherson & de Saint Laurent, 1991


Distribution : French Polynesia only: Austral (Arago bank, Lotus bank Raevavae, Tubuai), between 150-450 m.

Selected Reference(s)
Munida pasithea. - Macpherson, E. and Saint Laurent, M. d., 1991: Munida pasithea. - French Polynesia
Munida pasithea. - Macpherson, E., 2006: 323. - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Endemic to the region; Austral (Arago bank, Lotus bank Raevavae, Tubuai) - Marine; Deep (150-450 m); Hard bottom; ?Coral facultative associate (Gorgonian).

Regional Records: Munida pasithea Macpherson & de Saint Laurent, 1991: Munida pasithea (Tubuai; 300m; coll. Frv Marara, fr). - Poupin, 1996a: 97 (Checklist). - Macpherson, 2006: 323 (coll. BENTHAUS Exp., Austral Is. 2002, Arago bank, Lotus bank Raevavae, 150-450 m, st. DW1951, DW1986).

Depth distribution: 150 - 450 m

References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) - PDF 412 Ko
Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/