Galacantha Explained

Galacantha is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Munidopsidae,^[1] containing the following species:^[2]

• Galacantha bellis
• Galacantha bellula
• Galacantha diomedeae
• Galacantha galeata
• Galacantha quiquei
• Galacantha rostrata
• Galacantha spinosa
• Galacantha subrostrata
• Galacantha subspinosa
• Galacantha trachynotus
• Galacantha valdiviae

Notes and References

1. Shane T. Ahyong . Keiji Baba . Enrique Macpherson . Gary C. B. Poore . 2010 . A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) . . 2676 . 57–68 . PDF.
2. . Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae) . Keiji Baba . Enrique Macpherson . Gary C. B. Poore . Shane T. Ahyong . Adriana Bermudez . Patricia Cabezas . Chia-Wei Lin . Martha Nizinski . Celso Rodrigues . Kareen E. Schnabel . 1905 . 1–220 . 2008.