Macropodia tenuirostris (Leach, 1814)

Muñoz, Isabel, García-Raso, J. Enrique, Chillón, Begoña Sánchez & Cuesta, Jose A., 2025, Marine crabs from African waters housed in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC): An opportunity for biogeographic and systematic studies. Part I: Heterotremata (Decapoda, Brachyura), European Journal of Taxonomy 996, pp. 1-94 : 43-44

Macropodia tenuirostris (Leach, 1814)

Fig. 46

Material examined

MOROCCO – Tanger • 1 ♀ (12.8 ×18.2); 20 Nov. 1906; M. Martínez de la Escalera leg.; MNCN20.04/04171 .

Remarks

Only the carapace of the specimen is preserved, and the rostrum is broken, but the arrangement of the spines, both ventrally and dorsally, identifies it as a female M. tenuirostris . The previous identification was at family level, Inachidae .

Figures

Fig. 46. Macropodia tenuirostris (Leach, 1814). MNCN20.04/04171. Scale bars = 1 cm.