{{Short description|Species of crustacean}} {{Speciesbox | image = Munida chydaea.jpg | taxon = Scolonida gracilis | authority = (Henderson, 1885) | synonyms = {{species list | Munida chydaea | Ahyong & Gary Poore, 2004<ref name=Ahyong2004/> | Munida disgrega | Baba, 2005 | Munida gracilis | Henderson, 1885 }} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=WoRMS/> }}
'''''Scolonida gracilis''''' is a species of squat lobster in the family Munididae.<ref name=WoRMS/><ref name=GBIF/><ref name="Machordom et al. 2022"/>
The males measure between about {{convert|23.3|and|46.7|mm|in|1}} and the females between about {{convert|12.4|and|36.0|mm|in|1}}. It is found off of Tasmania and Victoria to Sydney, and in the Great Australian Bight, at depths between about {{convert|145|and|700|m|ft|-1}}.<ref name="eol">{{Cite web |url=http://www.eol.org/pages/4258131/overview |title=Munida chydaea - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life |access-date=2017-03-16 |archive-date=2017-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316204516/http://www.eol.org/pages/4258131/overview |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is also found in the waters around New Zealand.<ref name=GBIF/>
In 2021, ''Munida chydaea'' was synonymised with ''Munida gracilis''.<ref>McCallum, A., Ahyong, S. & Andreakis, N. 2021. New species of squat lobsters of the genus ''Munida'' from Australia. ''Memoirs of Museum Victoria'' '''80''': 113–152 [142]</ref> The specific name ''chydaea'' was derived from the Greek {{lang|el|χυδαῖος}} (''{{lang|el|khudaîos}}''), "abundant", in reference to how numerous the species is.<ref name="eol"/>
==References== {{Reflist|30em|refs= <ref name=Ahyong2004>{{cite Q|Q28938849|pages=3-76 [24-28]}}</ref>
<ref name=GBIF>{{GBIF |id=11534063 |taxon=''Scolonida gracilis'' (Henderson, 1885) |access-date=4 June 2023}}</ref>
<ref name="Machordom et al. 2022">{{cite journal |last1=Machordom |first1=Annie |last2=Ahyong |first2=Shane T. |last3=Andreakis |first3=Nikos |last4=Baba |first4=Keiji |last5=Buckley |first5=David |last6=García-Jiménez |first6=Ricardo |last7=McCallum |first7=Anna W. |last8=Rodríguez-Flores |first8=Paula C. |last9=Macpherson |first9=Enrique |name-list-style=amp |title=Deconstructing the crustacean squat lobster genus ''Munida'' to reconstruct the evolutionary history and systematics of the family Munididae (Decapoda, Anomura, Galatheoidea) |journal=Invertebrate Systematics |date=2022 |volume=36 |issue=10 |pages=926–970 |doi=10.1071/IS22013|hdl=10261/280688 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
<ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |title=''Scolonida gracilis'' (Henderson, 1885) |year=2023 |id=1605919 |db=decapoda |access-date=4 June 2023}}</ref> }}
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Category:Squat lobsters Category:Anomura of the Indian Ocean Category:Anomura of the Pacific Ocean Category:Marine crustaceans of New Zealand Category:Crustaceans of Australia Category:Marine fauna of Australia Category:Crustaceans described in 2004 Category:Taxa named by Shane T. Ahyong
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