Galathea ahyongi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Galatheoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Anomura Superfamilia: Galatheoidea

Galathea ahyongi Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015: 32, figs. 7, 115E

Holotype: UF 36149, ♀, 4 March 2013.
Type locality: Red Sea. Farasan Banks, Dolphen Lagoon, 19.0053°N 40.1482°E, 1–7 m.
Etymology: named after Shane T. Ahyong, for his major contributions to Anomuran systematics and decapod crustacean phylogeny.

Macpherson, E. & Robainas-Barcia, A. 2015. Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species. Zootaxa 3913 (1): 1–335. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1 Reference page. [original description: p. 32, figs. 7, 115E]

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