Valamunida Klompmaker and Robins 2019
- Dataset
- A late Paleocene fauna from shallow-water chemosynthesis-based ecosystems, Spitsbergen, Svalbard
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Munididae
- genus
- Valamunida
materials_examined
Type species: Valamunida haeggi Klompmaker and Robins sp. nov.; by monotypy, see below. Etymology: From the Norse völva, an ancient seeress who carried a wand, similar to the rostrum on this galatheoid and - munida referring to the family name. Diagnosis. — As for the type species by monotypy. Remarks. — The new genus is placed within the Munididae based on a combination of tubercles and spines on the anterior carapace and its lateral margins, the trifid rostrum, and the (bases of) spines at the outer orbital angle. These characters are typical for most Munididae, but this combination of characters is not typical for other galatheoid families (Ahyong et al. 2010).