Galatheoidea Samouelle 1819
- 1. Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CSIC), C. acc. Cala San Francesc 14, E- 17300 Blanes (Spain) macpherson @ ceab. csic. es
- 2. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing CA (USA) jones @ mbari. org
- 3. Ifremer, Centre de Brest, DEEP / Laboratoire Environnement Profond-Centob, BP 70, F- 29280 Plouzané (France) segonzac @ ifremer. fr
Description
KEY TO FAMILIES OF GALATHEOIDEA
The key provided by authors (see above) can be modified to accommodate Kiwaidae n. fam. as follows:
1. Weakly calcified lineage/sutures dividing carapace into discrete regions...... Aeglidae — Carapace without lineage/sutures.......................................................................... 22. Abdomen folded up against thorax; body crab-like; chelipeds moderately elongate, stout or flattened................................................................................ Porcellanidae
— Abdomen folded up against itself (not against thorax); body shrimp-like; chelipeds greatly elongate, usually slender............................................................................ 3
3. Sternal plate on last thoracic somite, between last legs, well developed; telson without a transverse suture and not folded beneath the preceding abdominal somites with the tailfan; third maxilliped with epipod...................................... Galatheidae
— Sternal plate on last thoracic somite, between last legs, absent; telson with a transverse suture (sometimes difficult to see) and folded beneath the preceding abdominal somites with the tailfan; third maxilliped without epipod...................................... 4
4. Insertion of fifth pereopod clearly visible ventrally; sternite between third maxillipeds small, not produced anteriorly; eyes well developed; usually with antennal scale............................................................................................................ Chirostylidae
— Insertion of fifth pereopod not visible ventrally and situated beneath sternal plastron; sternite between third maxillipeds large, strongly produced anteriorly; eyes strongly reduced; antennal scale absent...................................................... Kiwaidae n. fam.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Samouelle
- Taxon rank
- superFamily
- Taxonomic concept label
- Galatheoidea Samouelle, 1819 sec. Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005