Tags: Crustacean.

Eumunida picta is a species of squat lobster. The species is strongly associated with reefs of Lophelia pertusa a deep-water coral and with methane seeps. It occurs abundantly in the western Atlantic Ocean where it is found from Massachusetts to Colombia.

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binomial authority
Sidney Irving Smith
class
Malacostraca
family
Squat lobster
genus
Eumunida
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Anomura
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean

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