''Raymunida insulata'' 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, alongsi ...
in the family
Munididae
The Munididae are 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 trispinos ...
from the
Pacific
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and
Indian ocean
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s. The species can be distinguished by its
morphology
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Disciplines
*Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts
*Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...
(subtle morphological characteristics, such as length of the mesial spine on the basal
antennal
Antennae ( antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.
Antennae are connected to the first one or two segments of the arthropod head. They vary widely in form but are always made of one o ...
segment, the length of its
walking legs, and color pattern) and its
mitochondrial
cytochrome c oxidase subunit I
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sequences
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.
References
Further reading
*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.
*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.
*Osawa, Masayuki, and Mohsen Safaie. "Two squat lobster species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the Persian Gulf, with description of a new species of Raymunida Macpherson & Machordom, 2000." Zootaxa 3861.3 (2014): 265-274.
External links
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Squat lobsters
Crustaceans described in 2001
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