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Members of the Munididae family typically live in the deep waters of the continental shelf and slopes.
The material for the study was collected during the research cruise FK190106 of the Schmidt Ocean Institute 2019 in the area of the undersea mountains of Cocos Canyon off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
The specimen was collected using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) SuBastian, which was deployed from the research vessel Falkor.
The size of the specimen is given as the postorbital carapace length (pcl), which refers to the carapace length excluding the rostrum.
The dorsal side of the carapace and pleon are generally pale orange; the anterior part of the carapace, including the rostral spine, supraocular spines, anterolateral spines, and epigastric spines, is reddish orange. Pereiopods are whitish.
Typhlonida cocoensis is morphologically similar to Typhlonida sanctipauli, which is distributed in the eastern and western Atlantic.
Etymology.
Named in honor of the type locality off Isla del Coco (Cocos Island), an oceanic island protected in the Isla del Coco National Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its rich biodiversity.
The authors thank Jorge Cortés Núñez of the Universidad de Costa Rica for suggesting this name and for his contributions to deep-sea research and the biodiversity studies of Isla del Coco.
Literature reference:
Dong D, Seid CA, Li X, Rouse GW (2025)
A new Pacific Ocean species of Typhlonida Macpherson & Baba, 2022 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Munididae) from the flank of the emergent seamount Isla del Coco (Costa Rica) with notes on the phylogeny of the genus. Zoosystematics and Evolution
101(2): 473-483. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.144042
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The material for the study was collected during the research cruise FK190106 of the Schmidt Ocean Institute 2019 in the area of the undersea mountains of Cocos Canyon off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
The specimen was collected using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) SuBastian, which was deployed from the research vessel Falkor.
The size of the specimen is given as the postorbital carapace length (pcl), which refers to the carapace length excluding the rostrum.
The dorsal side of the carapace and pleon are generally pale orange; the anterior part of the carapace, including the rostral spine, supraocular spines, anterolateral spines, and epigastric spines, is reddish orange. Pereiopods are whitish.
Typhlonida cocoensis is morphologically similar to Typhlonida sanctipauli, which is distributed in the eastern and western Atlantic.
Etymology.
Named in honor of the type locality off Isla del Coco (Cocos Island), an oceanic island protected in the Isla del Coco National Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its rich biodiversity.
The authors thank Jorge Cortés Núñez of the Universidad de Costa Rica for suggesting this name and for his contributions to deep-sea research and the biodiversity studies of Isla del Coco.
Literature reference:
Dong D, Seid CA, Li X, Rouse GW (2025)
A new Pacific Ocean species of Typhlonida Macpherson & Baba, 2022 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Munididae) from the flank of the emergent seamount Isla del Coco (Costa Rica) with notes on the phylogeny of the genus. Zoosystematics and Evolution
101(2): 473-483. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.144042
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
