{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Other uses|Galatea (disambiguation){{!}}Galatea}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Galathea squamifera.jpg | image_caption = ''Galathea squamifera'' | taxon = Galathea | authority = Fabricius, 1793 <ref>{{ITIS |id=98047 |taxon=''Galathea'' Fabricius, 1793 |accessdate=February 27, 2011}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''See text'' | type_species = ''Cancer strigosus'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1761 <ref name="Baba"/> }}
'''''Galathea''''' is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae.<ref name=WoRMS/> It is one of the largest genera of squat lobsters that in 2008 contained 73 species (17 in the Atlantic Ocean, 25 in the Indian Ocean and 43 in the Pacific Ocean)<ref name="Baba">{{cite journal |journal=Zootaxa |title=Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura — families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae) |author1=Keiji Baba |author2=Enrique Macpherson |author3=Gary C. B. Poore |author4=Shane T. Ahyong |author5=Adriana Bermudez |author6=Patricia Cabezas |author7=Chia-Wei Lin |author8=Martha Nizinski |author9=Celso Rodrigues |author10=Kareen E. Schnabel |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01905p220.pdf |volume=1905 |pages=1–220 |year=2008|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1 |doi-access=free }}</ref> (several more have been described more recently<ref name=WoRMS/>). Most species of ''Galathea'' live in shallow waters.<ref name="Baba"/>
==Species== As of 2025, ''Galathea'' contains the following species:<ref name="Baba"/><ref name=WoRMS/> {{div col|colwidth=24em}} *''Galathea acerata'' {{small|Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015}} *''Galathea acis'' {{small|Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015}} *''Galathea aegyptiaca'' {{small|Paul'son, 1875}} *''Galathea aequata'' {{small|Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015}} *''Galathea albatrossae'' {{small|Baba, 1988}} *''Galathea amamiensis'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1966}} *''Galathea amboinensis'' {{small|De Man, 1888}} *''Galathea anepipoda'' {{small|Baba, 1990}} *''Galathea australiensis'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} *''Galathea balssi'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1964}} *''Galathea bengala'' {{small|Tirmizi & Javed, 1993}} *''Galathea bidens'' {{small|Baba, 1988}} *''Galathea bimaculata'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1966}} *''Galathea bolivari'' {{small|Zariquiey Álvarez, 1950}} *''Galathea boninensis'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1965}} *''Galathea brevimana'' {{small|Paul'son, 1875}} *''Galathea capillata'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1970}} *''Galathea cenarroi'' {{small|Zariquiey Álvarez, 1968}} *''Galathea consobrina'' {{small|De Man, 1902}} *''Galathea corallicola'' {{small|Haswell, 1882}} *''Galathea coralliophilus'' {{small|Baba & Oh, 1990}} *''Galathea cymbulaerostris'' {{small|Tirmizi, 1966}} *''Galathea dispersa'' {{small|Bate, 1859}} *''Galathea faiali'' {{small|Nunes-Ruivo, 1961}} *''Galathea formosa'' {{small|De Man, 1902}} *''Galathea genkai'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1964}} *''Galathea guttata'' {{small|Osawa, 2004}} *''Galathea hispida'' {{small|Baba, 2005}} *''Galathea inconspicua'' {{small|Henderson, 1885}} *''Galathea inflata'' {{small|Potts, 1915}} *''Galathea intermedia'' {{small|Liljeborg, 1851}} *''Galathea keijii'' {{small|Tirzimi & Javed, 1993}} *''Galathea kuboi'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1967}} *''Galathea labidolepta'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} *''Galathea latirostris'' {{small|Dana, 1852}} *''Galathea lenis'' {{small|Baba, 1969}} *''Galathea longimana'' {{small|Paul'son, 1875}} *''Galathea longimanoides'' {{small|Johnson, 1970}} *''Galathea lumaria'' {{small|Baba, 2005}} *''Galathea machadoi'' {{small|Barrois, 1888}} *''Galathea maculiabdominalis'' {{small|Baba, 1972}} *''Galathea magnifica'' {{small|Haswell, 1882}} *''Galathea mauritiana'' {{small|Bouvier, 1914}} *''Galathea multilineata'' {{small|Balss, 1913}} *''Galathea nexa'' {{small|Embleton, 1834}} *''Galathea ohshimai'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1967}} *''Galathea omanensis'' {{small|Tirmizi & Javed, 1993}} *''Galathea orientalis'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} *''Galathea patae'' {{small|Osawa, 2006}} *''Galathea paucilineata'' {{small|Benedict, 1902}} *''Galathea pilosa'' {{small|De Man, 1888}} *''Galathea platycheles'' {{small|Miyake, 1953}} *''Galathea pubescens'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} *''Galathea quinquespinosa'' {{small|(Balss, 1913)}} *''Galathea robusta'' {{small|Baba, 1990}} *''Galathea rostrata'' {{small|A. Milne Edwards 1880}} *''Galathea rubromaculata'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1967}} *''Galathea rufipes'' {{small|A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1894}} *''Galathea spinimanus'' {{small|Borradaile, 1900}} *''Galathea spinosorostris'' {{small|Dana, 1852}} *''Galathea squamea'' {{small|Baba, 1979}} *''Galathea squamifera'' {{small|Leach, 1814}} *''Galathea strigosa'' {{small|(Linnaeus, 1761)}} *''Galathea submagnifica'' {{small|Laurie, 1926}} *''Galathea subsquamata'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} *''Galathea tanegashimae'' {{small|Baba, 1969}} *''Galathea ternatensis'' {{small|De Man, 1902}} *''Galathea tropis'' {{small|Baba, 2005}} *''Galathea tukitukimea'' {{small|Salamanca, Asorey & Macpherson, 2025}} *''Galathea venusta'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1970}} *''Galathea vitiensis'' {{small|Dana, 1852}} *''Galathea waiora'' {{small|Macpherson & Robainas-Barcia, 2015}} *''Galathea whiteleggii'' {{small|Grant & McCulloch, 1906}} *''Galathea wolffi'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1970}} *''Galathea yamashitai'' {{small|Miyake & Baba, 1967}} *''Galathea bharata'' {{small|Tiwari, Padate, Cubelio & Osawa, 2024}} *''Galathea kalingasagara'' {{small|Tiwari, Padate, Cubelio & Osawa, 2024}} *''Galathea quadrangularis'' {{small|Tiwari, Padate, Cubelio & Osawa, 2024}} *† ''Galathea? genesis'' {{small|Robins & Klompmaker, 2019}} {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|30em|refs= <ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |title=''Galathea'' Fabricius, 1793 |year=2023 |id=106834 |db=decapoda |access-date=5 May 2023}}</ref> }} * {{cite journal |last1=Macpherson |first1=Enrique |last2=Robainas-Barcia |first2=Aymee |title=Species of the genus ''Galathea'' Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species |journal=Zootaxa |date=2015 |volume=3913 |issue=1 |pages=1–335 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1|pmid=25661779 |doi-access=free |hdl=10261/109710 |hdl-access=free }}
==Further reading== *{{cite journal |author=James E. Benedict |s2cid=84051061 |year=1902 |title=Descriptions of a new genus and forty-six new species of crustaceans of the family Galatheidae, with a list of the known marine species |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |volume=26 |issue=1311 |pages=243–334 |hdl=10088/13663 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.26-1311.243|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/9428 }}
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Category:Squat lobsters Category:Decapod genera Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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