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Galathea
Genus of crustaceans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Galathea is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae.[3] It is one of the largest genera of squat lobsters that in 2008 contained 70 species (17 in the Atlantic Ocean, 22 in the Indian Ocean and 43 in the Pacific Ocean)[2] (several more have been described more recently[3]). Most species of Galathea live in shallow waters.[2]
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Galathea | |
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Galathea squamifera | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Galatheidae |
Genus: | Galathea Fabricius, 1793 [1] |
Type species | |
Cancer strigosus Linnaeus, 1761 [2] | |
Species | |
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