Plesionida

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Plesionida concava (MNHN-IU-2014-10624) 001.jpeg

| image_caption = Plesionida concava

| taxon = Plesionida

| authority = Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996

| type_species = Plesionida psila

| type_species_authority = Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996

}}

Plesionida is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Munididae. {{As of|2017}}, it contains the following species:

The generic name is a combination of the Greek plesios, meaning "near" and the final syllables of Munida. Its gender is feminine.

References

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{{cite book|last1=Baba|first1=Keiji|last2=de Saint Laurent|first2=Michèle|chapter=Crustacea Decapoda: revision of the genus Bathymunida Balss, 1914, and description of six new related genera (Galatheidae)|series=Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle|date=1996|volume=168|pages=494–496|title=Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom, Volume 15|editor-last=Crosnier|editor-first=Alain|chapter-url=https://decapoda.nhm.org/cgi-bin/mason.cgi/references/pdfpick.html?id=13226|location=Paris}}

{{cite book|last1=Macpherson|first1=Enrique|chapter=Crustacea Decapoda: New records of species of the genera Munida Leach, 1820 and Paramunida Baba, 1988 (Galatheidae) from New Caledonia, with the descriptions of three new species|series=Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle|date=1996|volume=168|pages=429–430|title=Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom, Volume 15|editor-last=Crosnier|editor-first=Alain|chapter-url=http://research.nhm.org/pdfs/19124/19124.pdf|location=Paris}}

{{cite book|last1=Macpherson|first1=Enrique|chapter=Species of the genus Munida Leach, 1820 and related genera from Fiji and Tonga (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae)|pages=290–291|chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237718328|title=Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 23|series=Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle|volume=191|editor1-last=Héros|editor1-first=Virginie|editor2-last=Strong|editor2-first=Ellen|date=2004|location=Paris}}

{{cite WoRMS |last=Macpherson|first=Enrique |year=2017 |title=Plesionida Baba & Saint Laurent, 1996 |id=387314 |accessdate=28 August 2017}}

{{cite journal|last1=Cabezas|first1=Patricia|last2=Macpherson|first2=Enrique|last3=Machordom|first3=Annie|title=Morphological and molecular description of new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae) from the Solomon and Fiji Islands (South-West Pacific)|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|date=2009|volume=156|issue=3|pages=482–484|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00492.x|doi-access=free}}

{{cite journal|last1=Ahyong|first1=Shane T.|last2=Taylor|first2=Joanne|last3=McCallum|first3=Anna W.|title=New species and new records of deepwater munidid squat lobsters from north-western Australia: Onconida, Bathymunida, Crosnierita, Plesionida and Torbenella|journal=Zootaxa|date=2013|volume=3734|issue=1|pages=32–35|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3734.1.3|pmid=25277892|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258919349}}

{{cite journal |first1=Shane T.|last1=Ahyong |first2=Keiji |last2=Baba |first3=Enrique |last3=Macpherson |first4=Gary C. B.|last4=Poore |year=2010 |title=A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) |journal=Zootaxa|volume=2676 |page=62 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.4 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02676p068.pdf|hdl=10261/42217 |hdl-access=free }}

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal |journal=Zootaxa |title=Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae) |first1=Keiji |last1=Baba |first2=Enrique |last2=Macpherson |first3=Gary C. B. |last3=Poore |first4=Shane T. |last4=Ahyong |first5=Adriana |last5=Bermudez |first6=Patricia |last6= Cabezas |first7=Chia-Wei |last7=Lin |first8=Martha |last8=Nizinski |first9=Celso |last9=Rodrigues |first10=Kareen E. |last10=Schnabel |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01905p220.pdf |volume=1905 |page=177 |year=2008|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1 |doi-access=free }}