New records of the squat lobster genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Munidopsidae) from the deep sea off Taiwan

Two species of the squat lobster family Munidopsidae,Munidopsis albatrossaePequegnat & Pequegnat, 1973 andM. pycnopodaBaba, 2005, are reported from Taiwan for the first time based on specimens collected from lower bathyal depths. The Taiwanese material ofM. pycnopodaalso represents the first record of the species from the Pacific Ocean and greatly extends this species’ geographical range from the western Indian Ocean to western Pacific. The giantMunidopsisspecimen from Taiwan is identified asM. albatrossaemainly by DNA barcoding even thoughM. albatrossaeandM. aries(A. Milne-Edwards, 1880) are both morphologically and genetically extremely similar.