Plesionida

Plesionida is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Munididae.[2] As of 2017, it contains the following species:[3]

  • Plesionida aliena (Macpherson, 1996) — New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga, 445–545 m (1,460–1,788 ft).[4][5]
  • Plesionida aurelia Ahyong, Taylor & McCallum, 2013 — Northwestern Australia, 393–451 m (1,289–1,480 ft).[6]
  • Plesionida concava Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2009 — Solomon Islands, 399–427 m (1,309–1,401 ft).[7]
  • Plesionida psila Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996 — New Caledonia, 590–613 m (1,936–2,011 ft).[1]

Plesionida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Anomura
Family:
Munididae
Genus:
Plesionida

Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996[1]
Type species
Plesionida psila
Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996

The generic name is a combination of the Greek plesios, meaning "near" and the final syllables of Munida. Its gender is feminine.[1]

References
  1. Baba, Keiji; de Saint Laurent, Michèle (1996). "Crustacea Decapoda: revision of the genus Bathymunida Balss, 1914, and description of six new related genera (Galatheidae)". In Crosnier, Alain (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom, Volume 15. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 168. Paris. pp. 494–496.
  2. Ahyong, Shane T.; Baba, Keiji; Macpherson, Enrique; Poore, Gary C. B. (2010). "A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 62.
  3. Macpherson, Enrique (2017). "Plesionida Baba & Saint Laurent, 1996". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  4. Macpherson, Enrique (1996). "Crustacea Decapoda: New records of species of the genera Munida Leach, 1820 and Paramunida Baba, 1988 (Galatheidae) from New Caledonia, with the descriptions of three new species" (PDF). In Crosnier, Alain (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom, Volume 15. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 168. Paris. pp. 429–430.
  5. Macpherson, Enrique (2004). "Species of the genus Munida Leach, 1820 and related genera from Fiji and Tonga (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae)" (PDF). In Héros, Virginie; Strong, Ellen (eds.). Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 23. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 191. Paris. pp. 290–291.
  6. Ahyong, Shane T.; Taylor, Joanne; McCallum, Anna W. (2013). "New species and new records of deepwater munidid squat lobsters from north-western Australia: Onconida, Bathymunida, Crosnierita, Plesionida and Torbenella" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3734 (1): 32–35. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3734.1.3.
  7. Cabezas, Patricia; Macpherson, Enrique; Machordom, Annie (2009). "Morphological and molecular description of new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae) from the Solomon and Fiji Islands (South-West Pacific)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156 (3): 482–484. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00492.x.

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