WoRMS taxon details
Galatheidae Samouelle, 1819
AphiaID: 106733
AphiaID: 106733
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Galatheoidea (Superfamily) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Galatheoidea | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Samouelle, G. (1819) The entomologists' useful compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British Insects, comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linné, and modern methods of arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, spiders, mites and insects, from their affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology; a calendar of the times of appearance and usual situations of near 3,000 species of British Insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. Thomas Boys, London, 496, 12 pls pp. [details] 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 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 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. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Alainius Baba, 1991 Genus Allogalathea Baba, 1969 Genus Allomunida Baba, 1988 Genus Calypso Genus Coralliogalathea Baba & Javed, 1974 Genus Fennerogalathea Baba, 1988 Genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 Subfamily Galatheinae Genus Janetogalathea Baba & Wicksten, 1997 Genus Lauriea Baba, 1971 Genus Macrothea Macpherson & Cleva, 2010 Subfamily Munidopsinae Genus Nanogalathea Tirmizi & Javed, 1980 Genus Phylladiorhynchus Baba, 1969 Genus Triodonthea MacPherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2013 Genus Janira Risso, 1818 accepted as Galathea Fabricius, 1793 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: Authority taken from d'Udekem d'Acoz, no authorities listed in Hayward & Ryland [details] Remark: Cited as 'Galatheides' in Bouvier; contains genus Galathea [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106733 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Türkay, M. (2013). Galatheidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106733 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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