Lauriea

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Hairy Squat Lobster (14487442863).jpg | image_caption = ''Lauriea siagiani'' in a giant barrel sponge | taxon = Lauriea | authority = Baba, 1971 }}

'''''Lauriea''''' is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae, containing the following species:<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> * ''Lauriea gardineri'' <small>(Laurie, 1926)</small> * ''Lauriea siagiani'' <small>Baba, 1994</small>

The genus was named in 1971 by Keiji Baba in honour of R. D. Laurie, who discovered the first species.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Keiji Baba |year=1971 |title=''Lauriea'', a new genus proposed for ''Galathea gardineri'' Laurie (Crustacea, Anomura, Galatheidae) |journal=Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University |volume=19 |pages=51–53 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/13212/13212.pdf }}</ref>

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Category:Squat lobsters Category:Taxa named by Keiji Baba