Arthropoda Malacostraca Decapoda | Anomura | Galatheoidea
Munidopsidae Munidopsis sedna
Genus Species

BI-2019-003, #RVC

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PARATYPES

SMA Brine Pool. Originally identified as: 'Galatheidae'. No dive identifier- "SMA Brine Pool Galatheids B. Vrijenhoek". Likely associated with project by Shawn M. Arellano et al., 2014, sampling Gulf of Mexico brine pool: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4046398/.

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Brine Pool NR1 cold seep

180 km south of New Orleans, LA, Gulf of Mexico

27.7233° N
91.275° W

650.0 m

Oct. 3, 2001

MOCNESS

R/V Seward Johnson I and II

Robert Vrijenhoek et al

Paula Rodríguez-Flores

unknown

EtOH 50%

Details from Arellano et al., 2014: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4046398/