Galathea

Genus of crustaceans

Galathea
Galathea squamifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Galatheidae
Genus: Galathea
Fabricius, 1793 [1]
Type species
Cancer strigosus
Linnaeus, 1761 [2]
Species

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Galathea is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae.[3] It is one of the largest genera of squat lobsters that in 2008 contained 70 species (17 in the Atlantic Ocean, 22 in the Indian Ocean and 43 in the Pacific Ocean)[2] (several more have been described more recently[3]). Most species of Galathea live in shallow waters.[2]

Species

As of 2008, Galathea contains the following species:[2][3]

  • Galathea acerata Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015
  • Galathea acis Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015
  • Galathea aegyptiaca Paul'son, 1875
  • Galathea aequata Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015
  • Galathea albatrossae Baba, 1988
  • Galathea amamiensis Miyake & Baba, 1966
  • Galathea amboinensis De Man, 1888
  • Galathea anepipoda Baba, 1990
  • Galathea australiensis Stimpson, 1858
  • Galathea balssi Miyake & Baba, 1964
  • Galathea bengala Tirmizi & Javed, 1993
  • Galathea bidens Baba, 1988
  • Galathea bimaculata Miyake & Baba, 1966
  • Galathea bolivari Zariquiey Álvarez, 1950
  • Galathea boninensis Miyake & Baba, 1965
  • Galathea brevimana Paul'son, 1875
  • Galathea capillata Miyake & Baba, 1970
  • Galathea cenarroi Zariquiey Álvarez, 1968
  • Galathea consobrina De Man, 1902
  • Galathea corallicola Haswell, 1882
  • Galathea coralliophilus Baba & Oh, 1990
  • Galathea cymbulaerostris Tirmizi, 1966
  • Galathea dispersa Bate, 1859
  • Galathea faiali Nunes-Ruivo, 1961
  • Galathea formosa De Man, 1902
  • Galathea genkai Miyake & Baba, 1964
  • Galathea guttata Osawa, 2004
  • Galathea hispida Baba, 2005
  • Galathea inconspicua Henderson, 1885
  • Galathea inflata Potts, 1915
  • Galathea intermedia Liljeborg, 1851
  • Galathea keijii Tirzimi & Javed, 1993
  • Galathea kuboi Miyake & Baba, 1967
  • Galathea labidolepta Stimpson, 1858
  • Galathea latirostris Dana, 1852
  • Galathea lenis Baba, 1969
  • Galathea longimana Paul'son, 1875
  • Galathea longimanoides Johnson, 1970
  • Galathea lumaria Baba, 2005
  • Galathea machadoi Barrois, 1888
  • Galathea maculiabdominalis Baba, 1972
  • Galathea magnifica Haswell, 1882
  • Galathea mauritiana Bouvier, 1914
  • Galathea multilineata Balss, 1913
  • Galathea nexa Embleton, 1834
  • Galathea ohshimai Miyake & Baba, 1967
  • Galathea omanensis Tirmizi & Javed, 1993
  • Galathea orientalis Stimpson, 1858
  • Galathea patae Osawa, 2006
  • Galathea paucilineata Benedict, 1902
  • Galathea pilosa De Man, 1888
  • Galathea platycheles Miyake, 1953
  • Galathea pubescens Stimpson, 1858
  • Galathea quinquespinosa (Balss, 1913)
  • Galathea robusta Baba, 1990
  • Galathea rostrata A. Milne Edwards 1880
  • Galathea rubromaculata Miyake & Baba, 1967
  • Galathea rufipes A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1894
  • Galathea spinimanus Borradaile, 1900
  • Galathea spinosorostris Dana, 1852
  • Galathea squamea Baba, 1979
  • Galathea squamifera Leach, 1814
  • Galathea strigosa (Linnaeus, 1761)
  • Galathea submagnifica Laurie, 1926
  • Galathea subsquamata Stimpson, 1858
  • Galathea tanegashimae Baba, 1969
  • Galathea ternatensis De Man, 1902
  • Galathea tropis Baba, 2005
  • Galathea venusta Miyake & Baba, 1970
  • Galathea vitiensis Dana, 1852
  • Galathea waiora Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015
  • Galathea whiteleggii Grant & McCulloch, 1906
  • Galathea wolffi Miyake & Baba, 1970
  • Galathea yamashitai Miyake & Baba, 1967

References

  1. ^ "Galathea Fabricius, 1793". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d Keiji Baba; Enrique Macpherson; Gary C. B. Poore; Shane T. Ahyong; Adriana Bermudez; Patricia Cabezas; Chia-Wei Lin; Martha Nizinski; Celso Rodrigues; Kareen E. Schnabel (2008). "Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura — families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1905: 1–220. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1.
  3. ^ a b c "Galathea Fabricius, 1793". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  • Macpherson, Enrique; Robainas-Barcia, Aymee (2015). "Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species". Zootaxa. 3913 (1): 1–335. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1. PMID 25661779.

Further reading

  • James E. Benedict (1902). "Descriptions of a new genus and forty-six new species of crustaceans of the family Galatheidae, with a list of the known marine species". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 26 (1311): 243–334. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.26-1311.243. hdl:10088/13663. S2CID 84051061.
Taxon identifiers
Galathea


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