Malacostraca - Decapoda - Munididae

Full reference: C. M. Robins, R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2012. Clarification of the South American genus Austromunida Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2000 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with the establishment of a new species. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A (114)301-306

Belongs to Munida according to C. M. Robins et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Munida asprosoma, Munida branti, Munida casadioi, Munida chydaea, Munida endeavourae, Munida gregaria, Munida haswelli, Munida isos, Munida kapala, Munida konara, Munida nishioi, Munida ogaensis, Munida quadroblonga, Munida rogeri, Munida rubridigitalis, Munida rugosus, Munida spinicruris, Munida witteae

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cenozoic South American Decapod, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene marine horizon in the Rio Foyel Formation of Argentina

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cenozoic South American Decapod

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