Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Anomura > Superfamily Galatheoidea > Family Galatheidae > Genus Galathea

Galathea dispersa Bate, 1859

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Galathea*	Fabricius, 1793	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: squat lobster

Literature

original description	Bate, S. (1859) On the importance of an examination of the structure of the integument of Crustacea in the determination of doubtful species. Application to the genus Galathea, with the description of a new species of that genus. Journal and Proceedings o
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Baba K., Macpherson E., Poore G., Ahyong S., Bermudez A., Cabezas P., Lin C., Nizinski M., Rodrigues C. & Schnabel K. 2008. Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura—families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). (Zootaxa 1905). 220 pp.; 30 cm.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (98 publications)
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Fransen, C. (2014). Galathea dispersa Bate, 1859. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107148