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Spider Squat Lobsters

Chirostylidae

Chirostyloidea is an anomuran taxon with squat lobster-like representatives. It comprises the three families Chirostylidae, Eumunididae and Kiwaidae. Although representatives of Chirostyloidea are superficially similar to galatheoid squat lobsters, they are more closely related to Lomisoidea and Aegloidea together forming the taxon Australopoda. No fossils can be confidently assigned to the Chirostyloidea, although Pristinaspina may belong either in the family Kiwaidae or Chirostylidae.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Chirostylus

genusChirostylus

Uroptychus

genusUroptychus

Gastroptychus

genusGastroptychus

Heteroptychus

genusHeteroptychus

Hapaloptyx

genusHapaloptyx

Uroptychodes

genusUroptychodes

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 245424.