Munidopsis andamanica

{{Short description|Species of crustacean}}

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| genus = Munidopsis

| species = andamanica

| authority = MacGilchrist, 1905 {{cite journal |journal=Zootaxa |title=Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae) |author1=Keiji Baba |author2=Enrique Macpherson |author3=Gary C. B. Poore |author4=Shane T. Ahyong |author5=Adriana Bermudez |author6=Patricia Cabezas |author7=Chia-Wei Lin |author8=Martha Nizinski |author9=Celso Rodrigues |author10=Kareen E. Schnabel |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01905p220.pdf |volume=1905 |pages=1–220 |year=2008|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1 |doi-access=free }}{{cite web |author=Enrique Macpherson |year=2010 |title=Munidopsis andamanica MacGilchrist, 1905 |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=392478 |accessdate=June 7, 2011}}

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Munidopsis andamanica is a species of squat lobster that lives in the deep sea and eats dead wood.{{cite news |title=The deep-sea crab that eats trees |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8353000/8353068.stm |publisher=BBC News |author=Matt Walker |date=11 November 2009 |accessdate=16 November 2010}}{{cite journal |author1=Caroline Hoyoux |author2=Magali Zbinden |author3=Sarah Samadi |author4=Françoise Gaill |author5=Philippe Compère |year=2009 |title=Wood-based diet and gut microflora of a galatheid crab associated with Pacific deep-sea wood falls |journal=Marine Biology |volume=156 |issue=12 |pages=2421–2439 |doi=10.1007/s00227-009-1266-2|url=http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/28764 }} It has long chelipeds (claw-bearing legs), which are twice as long as the carapace.