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Squat Lobsters and Porcelain Crabs
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Squat Lobsters and Porcelain Crabs

Galatheoidea

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. The fossil record of the superfamily extends back to the Middle Jurassic genus Palaeomunidopsis.

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4 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Porcelain Crabs

familyPorcellanidae

Galatheid Squat Lobsters

familyGalatheidae

Munidid Squat Lobsters

familyMunididae

Deep-sea Squat Lobsters

familyMunidopsidae

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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 47806.