Deep-sea Galatheidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from Tosa Bay and Okinawa Trough, Southern Japan

Crustaceans of the family Galatheidae are reported from Tosa Bay and Okinawa Trough, southern Japan, at depths ranging from 526 m to 3278 m. The material comprises two species of Munida Leach, 1820, two species of Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880, and nine species of Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874. Eight of these species are new to the carcinological fauna of Japan: Munida tiresias Macpherson, 1994, Galacantha bellis Henderson, 1885, Munidopsis an- damanica MacGilchrist, 1905, M. bairdii (Smith, 1884), M. bispinoculata Baba, 1988, M. centrina Alcock and Anderson, 1894, M. pilosa Henderson 1885, and M. verrilli Benedict, 1902. Brief notes on the decapod crustaceans recorded from abyssal depths of Japanese waters are provided.