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:
- Plesionida aliena (Macpherson, 1996) — New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga, {{convert|445|-|545|m|abbr=on}}.
- Plesionida aurelia {{small|Ahyong, Taylor & McCallum, 2013}} — Northwestern Australia, {{convert|393|–|451|m|abbr=on}}.
- Plesionida concava {{small|Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2009}} — Solomon Islands, {{convert|399|–|427|m|abbr=on}}.
- Plesionida psila Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996 — New Caledonia, {{convert|590|–|613|m|abbr=on}}.
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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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 }}
External links
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Plesionida|Plesionida}}
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