Additional records of Chirostylus and Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheoidea) from Taiwan

Abstract

Two galatheoid species, Chirostylus rostratus Osawa & Nishikiori, 1998, and Munidopsis taiwanica, new species, are reported from Taiwanese waters. The specimen of C. rostratus represents the fi rst record of the genus Chirostylus Ortmann, 1892, from Taiwan. Munidopsis taiwanica appears closest to M. solidissima Macpherson, 2007, but differs in the shape of the thoracic sternite 4 as well as the armatures on the antennular and antennal peduncles and P1–4. The new species was collected from the deepest station so far conducted off Taiwan and at a depth of 5,011 m.