Galathea anoplos (lat.) Is a species of half - tailed decapod crustaceans from the Galatheidae family.
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Distribution
The Pacific Ocean , the coast of the Solomon Islands , Wallis and Futuna , depth 229–260 m [1] .
Description
Small crustaceans, body length about 0.5 cm. Epipods on perei are absent. Carapax is approximately equal in length and width. The rostrum is dorsoventrally flattened, triangular in shape, 2 times longer than its width and equal to 0.7 carapace lengths. They live in shallow water. Galathea anoplos is similar to the species Galathea connudata [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Macpherson E., Robainas-Barcia A. Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species (English) // Zootaxa . - Vol. 3913, no. 1 . - P. 1—335.
Literature
- Keiji Baba, Enrique Macpherson, Gary CB Poore, Shane T. Ahyong, Adriana Bermudez, Patricia Cabezas, Chia-Wei Lin, Martha Nizinski, Celso Rodrigues & Kareen E. Schnabel. Catalog of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae) (English) // Zootaxa : journal. - 2008. - Vol. 1905 . - P. 1-220 .
- Enrique Macpherson & Aymee Robainas-Barcia. Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species (English) // Zootaxa : journal. - 2015. - Vol. 3913 (1) . - P. 1—335 .
- Enrique MacPherson New deep-sea squat lobsters of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Decapoda, Galatheidae) from Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Eng.) // Zoosystema: Journal. - Paris , France : Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 2012. - Vol. 34 (2). - P. 409-427. - ISSN 1638-9387 .
Links
- Galathea . Squat Lobsters . eol.org. Date of treatment January 23, 2015.
- Galathea Fabricius, 1793 biolib.cz. Date of treatment January 23, 2015.
- taxon Galathea Fabricius, 1793. ] . WoRMS taxon details . World Register of Marine Species. Date of treatment January 23, 2015.