Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Latreille, 1802
Order: Decapoda Latreille, 1802
Family: Munididae Ahyong, Baba, Macpherson & Poore, 2010
Sadayoshia brevirostrum Tiwari, Padate, Cubelio & Osawa, 2024
Collection: Andaman Sea, northwest of Car Nicobar Island, Nicobars, 9.28°N, 92.70°E, 50 m, 06.12.2011 (FORVSS 292 leg 2, St. 60), Smith McIntyre Grab.
Voucher No.: CMLRE IO/SS/ANO/00149
Description: Carapace dorsal surface with 5 pairs of epigastric spines, 1 anterior branchial spine, 1 parahepatic spine & 1 post-cervical spine; branchial margin with 4 spines. Anterior margin of thoracic sternite 4 as wide as sternite 3, sternites 5–6 with few short oblique striae on lateral portions. Pleonal somites 2–3 each with row of interrupted, short striae between 2 transverse ridges. Mxp3 merus with disto-extensor spine, flexor margin with 2 slender spines; carpus with 1 distoventral spine. P2–4 meri squamate on lateral surface, P4 mero-carpal articulation reaching level of lateral end of anterior cervical groove of carapace.
Biological association: None.
Remarks: New species of reef-associated squat lobster from Indian waters.
Distribution: Andaman Sea. Depth range: 50 m.
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Identified by: Shivam Tiwari
Publication: Tiwari S., Padate V.P., Cubelio S.S., Osawa M. (2024) Galatheoid squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the epipelagic bottom of the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone, with descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa, 5501 (2): 291–314.
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