Munidopsis serricornis

Tags: Crustacean.

Munidopsis serricornis is a species of squat lobster. It is widely distributed in the world’s oceans being found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean (from Iceland and Norway to the Cape Verde Islands) the western Atlantic Ocean (from the United States to the Gulf of Mexico) and the Indo-Pacific (from Australia and the Malay Archipelago to Madagascar). It grows up to a carapace length of 20 millimetres (0.8 in).M.

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binomial authority

Sven Ludvig Lovén

class

Malacostraca

family

Galatheoidea

genus

Munidopsis

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Galathea serricornis (Lovén 1852), *Galathea tridentata (Esmark 1857), *Galathodes rosaceus (A. Milne-Edwards 1881), *Galathodes serricornis (Lovén 1852), *Galathodes tridentata (Esmark 1857), *Galathodes tridentatus (Esmark 1857), *Munidopsis bahamensis (Benedict 1902), *Munidopsis rosacea (A. Milne-Edwards 1881), *Munidopsis tenuirostris (Benedict 1902), *Munidopsis tridentata (Esmark 1857), *Munidopsis tridentatus (Esmark 1857)