''Raymunida erythrina'' 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 ...
from the
Pacific
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and
Indian ocean
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s. The species can be distinguished by its
morphological characters (subtle morphological characters, such as length of the mesial spine on the basal
antennal segment, the length of its
walking legs, and color pattern) and its
mitochondria
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l
cytochrome c oxidase subunit I
Cytochrome c oxidase I (COX1) also known as mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase I (MT-CO1) is a protein that is encoded by the ''MT-CO1'' gene in eukaryotes. The gene is also called ''COX1'', ''CO1'', or ''COI''. Cytochrome c oxidase ...
sequences
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.
References
Further reading
*Osawa, Masayuki. "The identity of Raymunida elegantissima (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) and description of a closely related new species from Japan." Species Diversity 10 (2005): 85-104.
*Lin, Chia-Wei, Tin-Yam Chan, and Ka Hou Chu. "A new squat lobster of the genus Raymunida (Decapoda: Galatheidae) from Taiwan." Journal of Crustacean Biology 24.1 (2004): 149-156.
*Miller, Derryl. "DNA barcoding parasite organisms found in terrestrial mammal scat using COI sequence data."
External links
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Squat lobsters
Crustaceans described in 2001
Taxa named by Enrique Macpherson
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