Galatheoidea
squat lobsters
i
2026-08-05: itis_id 206948 via WoRMS external link
The Galatheoidea are a superfamily of decapod crustaceans comprising the porcelain crabs and some squat lobsters. Squat lobsters within the three families of the superfamily Chirostyloidea are not closely related to the squat lobsters within the Galatheoidea.W CalCOFI holds 437 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2021, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 437
- observations
- 1,137
- records
- 1951–2021
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 1
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Galatheidae most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:106685")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:106685'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Galatheidae most observed
- F Galatheidae squat lobsters1,038
- F Munididae99
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Anomura
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Galathea squamifera · source
- Photo · marlin harms · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Galatheoidea” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354899606
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗