''Munida aequalis'' is a species of

squat lobster Squat lobsters are dorsoventrally flattened crustaceans with long tails held curled beneath the cephalothorax. They are found in the two superfamilies Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea, which form part of the decapod infraorder Anomura, alongs ...

in the family

Munididae Munididae is a family of squat lobsters, taxonomically separated from the family Galatheidae in 2010. Description and ecology The squat lobsters in the family Munididae can be distinguished from other families by the presence of a trispinose f ...

. It was first described in 2004 by Shane Ahyong and GartyPoore. The species name is derived from the

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

''aequalis'', meaning "like" or "same", referring to the similar size of the terminal spines of the basal antennular segment. It is found northwest of

Tweed Heads, New South Wales Tweed Heads is a coastal city at the mouth of the Tweed River in the Northern Rivers region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tweed Heads is the northernmost town in New South Wales, and is located in the Tweed Shire local government ...

to near Wooli, New South Wales, at depths between about . The males are usually between long, with the females being between about long.

References

Squat lobsters Crustaceans described in 2004 Taxa named by Shane T. Ahyong {{Squat-lobster-stub