Dactylonida
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| Dactylonida | |
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| Dactylonida curvimana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Munididae |
| Genus: | Dactylonida Macpherson & Baba, 2022 |
| Type species | |
| Munida curvimana A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1894 | |
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]
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]
