Galatheidae

Munida rugosa, copyright B. E. Picton.

Belongs within: Anomala.

The Galatheidae, squat lobsters, are a group of benthic or pelagic crustaceans somewhat similar to a lobster in superficial appearance but with the abdomen carried reflexed under the cephalothorax in the manner of a crab.

<==Galatheidae
    |  i. s.: Munidopsis Whiteaves 1874 H86
    |           |--M. andamanica MacGilchrist 1905 MG-H11
    |           |--M. comarge Taylor, Ahyong & Andreakis 2010 MG-H11
    |           |--M. crenatirostris Baba 1988 MG-H11
    |           |--M. cylindrophthalma (Alcock 1894) MG-H11
    |           |--M. dasypus Alcock 1894 MG-H11
    |           |--M. kensleyi Ahyong & Poore 2004 MG-H11
    |           |--M. levis (Alcock & Anderson 1894) MG-H11
    |           `--M. polymorpha Koelbel 1892 H86
    |         Allogalathea elegans (Adams & White 1848) MG-H11
    |         Agononida MG-H11
    |           |--A. eminens (Baba 1988) MG-H11
    |           |--A. incerta (Henderson 1888) MG-H11
    |           |--A. pilosimanus (Baba 1969) MG-H11
    |           |--A. rubrizonata Macpherson & Baba 2009 MG-H11
    |           `--A. similis (Baba 1988) MG-H11
    |         Enriquea leviantennata (Baba 1988) MG-H11
    |         Lauriea gardineri (Laurie 1926) MG-H11
    |         Paramunida stichas Macpherson 1993 MG-H11
    |         Phylladiorhynchus pusillus (Henderson 1885) MG-H11
    |         Raymunida MG-H11
    `--Galatheinae CA04
         |--Galathea MG-H11
         |    |--G. amboinensis de Man 1888 MG-H11
         |    |--G. balssi Miyake & Baba 1964 MG-H11
         |    |--G. bolivai Zariquiey-Alvarez 1950 KK03
         |    |--G. cenarroi (Zariquiey-Alvarez 1968) KK03
         |    |--G. consobrina De Man 1902 MG-H11
         |    |--G. dispersa Bate 1859 KK03
         |    |--G. intermedia Liljeborg 1851 KK03
         |    |--G. nexa Embleton 1834 KK03
         |    |--G. rostrata Milne Edwards 1880 HC79
         |    |--G. squamifera Leach 1814 DAS03
         |    `--G. strigosa (Linnaeus 1767) KK03
         `--Munida Leach 1820 [incl. Austromunida Schweitzer & Feldmann 2000] CA04
              |--*M. rugosa (Fabricius 1775) [=Pagurus rugosus] CA04
              |--M. andamanica Alcock 1894 MG-H11
              |--M. aprosoma Ahyong & Poore 2004 MG-H11
              |--M. babai Tirmizi & Javed 1976 MG-H11
              |--M. casadioi (Schweitzer & Feldmann 2000) [=*Austromunida casadioi] CA04
              |--M. disgrega Baba 2005 MG-H11
              |--M. gordoae Macpherson 2004 MG-H11
              |--M. haswelli Henderson 1885 MG-H11
              |--M. heteracantha Ortmann 1892 MG-H11
              |--M. intermedia Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1899 KK03
              |--M. irrasa Milne Edwards 1880 HC79
              |--M. keiensis Baba 2005 MG-H11
              |--M. konara Schweitzer & Feldmann 2000 CA04
              |--M. primaeva (Segerberg 1900) CA04
              |--M. quadrispina H47
              |--M. quadroblonga Schweitzer & Feldmann 2000 CA04
              |--M. roshanei Tirmizi 1996 MG-H11
              |--M. rubridigitalis Baba 1994 MG-H11
              |--M. rugosa (Fabricius 1775) KK03
              |--M. rutlanti Zariquiey-Alvarez 1952 KK03
              `--M. tenuimana Sars 1872 KK03

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[CA04] Casadío, S., A. de Angeli, R. M. Feldmann, A. Garassino, J. L. Hetler, A. Parras & C. E. Schweitzer. 2004. New decapod crustaceans (Thalassinidea, Galatheoidea, Brachyura) from the Middle Oligocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Annals of Carnegie Museum 73 (2): 25–47.

[DAS03] Dixon, C. J., S. T. Ahyong & F. R. Schram. 2003. A new hypothesis of decapod phylogeny. Crustaceana 76: 935–975.

[H47] Hatch, M. H. 1947. The Chelifera and Isopoda of Washington and adjacent regions. University of Washington Publications in Biology 10 (5): 155–274.

[H86] Holthuis, L. B. 1986. Decapoda. In: Botosaneanu, L. (ed.) Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) pp. 589–615. E. J. Brill/Dr. W. Backhuys: Leiden.

[HC79] Huff, J. A., & S. P. Cobb. 1979. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises 5 (4): 1–101.

[KK03] Kocataş, A., & T. Katağan. 2003. The decapod crustacean fauna of the Turkish seas. Zoology in the Middle East 29: 63–74.

[MG-H11] McEnnulty, F. R., K. L. Gowlett-Holmes, A. Williams, F. Althaus, J. Fromont, G. C. B. Poore, T. D. O'Hara, L. Marsh, P. Kott, S. Slack-Smith, P. Alderslade & M. V. Kitahara. 2011. The deepwater megabenthic invertebrates on the western continental margin of Australia (100–1100 m depths): composition, distribution and novelty. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 80: 1–191.