Eumunida picta

Eumunida picta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Eumunididae
Genus: Eumunida
Species:
E. picta
Binomial name
Eumunida picta

Eumunida picta is a species of squat lobster found in the deep sea. The species is strongly associated with reefs of Lophelia pertusa, a deep-water coral, and with methane seeps.[3] It is abundant in the western Atlantic Ocean,[4] where it is found from Massachusetts to Colombia.[5]

  1. ^ "Eumunida picta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  2. ^ Macpherson, Enrique (2015). "Eumunida picta Smith, 1883". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  3. ^ Morgan J. Kilgour; Thomas C. Shirley (2008). "Eumunida picta S. I. Smith, 1883, and Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758): a relationship or just good friends?". Crustaceana. 81 (5): 587–593. doi:10.1163/156854008784092166. JSTOR 20111421.
  4. ^ Ken Sulak (August 1, 2004). "Squat lobster Eumunida picta". United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original on May 31, 2010.
  5. ^ Keiji Baba; Enrique Macpherson; Gary C. B. Poore; Shane T. Ahyong; Adriana Bermudez; Patricia Cabezas; Chia-Wei Lin; Martha Nizinski; Celso Rodrigues; Kareen E. Schnabel (2008). "Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1905: 1–220. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 4, 2010.