A NEW TRICHOMYCETE COMMENSAL WITH A GALATHEID SQUAT LOBSTER FROM DEEP-SEA HYDROTHERMAL VENTS
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- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- other
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 171 (2) , 461-468
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1541687
Abstract
A new species of eccrinid fungus (Trichomycetes) is described. The fungus is a commensal in the cardiac and pyloric stomachs of the galatheid squat lobster Munidopsis subsquamosa (Decapoda, Anomura) collected from deep-sea (2600 m) hydrothermal vents. This is the first record of a trichomycete from depths greater than 50 m. About 40% of the galatheids examined were heavily infested; this proportion varied among the subsamples collected from various vent sites. No fungal thalli were observed in the smallest galatheids.Keywords
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