Dactylonida

Dactylonida is a small genus of squat lobsters in the family Munididae.[1][2][3] It was erected in 2022 to accommodate two species formerly placed in Munida, one of them (Dactylonida curvimana) from the East Atlantic and the other (Dactylonida mexicana) from the Central-Eastern Pacific.[3]

Dactylonida
Dactylonida curvimana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Munididae
Genus: Dactylonida
Macpherson & Baba, 2022
Type species
Munida curvimana

The genus Dactylonida name combines the Greek daktylos (=finger) and the genus name, Munida, and refers to the very long fingers on the chelipeds characteristic for the genus.[3]

Species

There are two recognized species:[1]

  • Dactylonida curvimana (A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1894)
  • Dactylonida mexicana (Benedict, 1902)

References
  1. "Dactylonida Macpherson & Baba in Machordom, Ahyong, Andreakis, Baba, Buckley, Garcia-Jimenez, McCallum, Rodriguez-Flores & Macpherson, 2022". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  2. "Dactylonida Macpherson & Baba, 2022". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  3. Machordom, Annie; Ahyong, Shane T.; Andreakis, Nikos; Baba, Keiji; Buckley, David; García-Jiménez, Ricardo; McCallum, Anna W.; Rodríguez-Flores, Paula C. & Macpherson, Enrique (2022). "Deconstructing the crustacean squat lobster genus Munida to reconstruct the evolutionary history and systematics of the family Munididae (Decapoda, Anomura, Galatheoidea)". Invertebrate Systematics. 36 (10): 926–970. doi:10.1071/IS22013. hdl:10261/280688. S2CID 252812564.


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