{{Short description|Superfamily of crustaceans}} {{automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Middle Jurassic|recent}} | image = Porcelain crab Nick Hobgood.jpg | image_caption = ''Neopetrolisthes maculatus'' (Porcellanidae) | image2 = Three-toothed squat lobster, Munidopsis tridentata.jpg | image2_caption = ''Munidopsis tridentata'' (Munidopsidae) | taxon = Galatheoidea | authority = Samouelle, 1819 | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = *Galatheidae *Munididae *Munidopsidae *Porcellanidae *† Paragalatheidae *† Catillogalatheidae }}
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.<ref name="Ahyong">{{cite journal |author1=Shane T. Ahyong |author2=Keiji Baba |author3=Enrique Macpherson |author4=Gary C. B. Poore |year=2010 |title=A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2676 |pages=57 68 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.4 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02676p068.pdf }}</ref> The fossil record of the superfamily extends back to the Middle Jurassic genus ''Palaeomunidopsis''.<ref name="Ahyong"/>
==Classification==
These families and genera are included:<ref name="Ahyong"/><ref name="checklist">{{cite journal |author=Masayuki Osawa |author2=Patsy A. McLaughlin |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |title=Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part II – Porcellanidae |journal=The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=Suppl. 23 |pages=109–129 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz109-129.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302185947/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz109-129.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-02}}</ref><ref name="Grave">{{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-06 }}</ref>
;Galatheidae {{small|Samouelle, 1819}} *† ''Acanthogalathea'' {{small|Müller & Collins, 1991}} – Upper Eocene * ''Alainius'' {{small|Baba, 1991}} * ''Allogalathea'' {{small|Baba, 1969}} * ''Allomunida'' {{small|Baba, 1988}} * ''Coralliogalathea'' {{small|Baba & Javed, 1974}} * ''Fennerogalathea'' {{small|Baba, 1988}} * ''Galathea'' {{small|Fabricius, 1793}} * ''Janetogalathea'' {{small|Baba & Wicksten, 1997}} * ''Lauriea'' {{small|Baba, 1971}} *† ''Lessinigalathea'' {{small|De Angeli & Garassino, 2002}} – Lower Eocene *† ''Lophoraninella'' {{small|Glaessner, 1945}} – Upper Cretaceous *† ''Luisogalathea'' {{small|Karasawa & Hayakawa, 2000}} – Upper Cretaceous * ''Macrothea'' {{small|Macpherson & Cleva, 2010}} *† ''Mesogalathea'' {{small|Houša, 1963}} – Upper Jurassic to Cretaceous * ''Nanogalathea'' {{small|Tirmizi & Javed, 1980}} *† ''Palaeomunida'' {{small|Lőrenthey, 1901}} – Upper Jurassic to Oligocene * ''Phylladiorhynchus'' {{small|Baba, 1969}} *† ''Spathagalathea'' {{small|De Angeli & Garassino, 2002}} – Upper Eocene
;Munididae {{small|Ahyong ''et al.'', 2010}} * ''Agononida'' {{small|Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996}} * ''Anomoeomunida'' {{small|Baba, 1993}} * ''Anoplonida'' {{small|Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996}} * ''Babamunida'' {{small|Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2008}} * ''Bathymunida'' {{small|Balss, 1914}} * ''Cervimunida'' {{small|Benedict, 1902}} *† ''Cretagalathea'' {{small|Garassino, De Angeli & Pasini, 2008}} – Upper Cretaceous * ''Crosnierita'' {{small|Macpherson, 1998}} * ''Enriquea'' {{small|Baba, 2005}} * ''Heteronida'' {{small|Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996}} * ''Sadayoshia'' {{small|Baba, 1969}} * ''Munida'' {{small|Leach, 1820}} * ''Neonida'' {{small|Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996}} * ''Onconida'' {{small|Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996}} * ''Paramunida'' {{small|Baba, 1988}} * ''Pleuroncodes'' {{small|Stimpson, 1860}} * ''Plesionida'' {{small|Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996}} *† ''Protomunida'' {{small|Beurlen, 1930}} – Paleocene to Eocene * ''Raymunida'' {{small|Macpherson & Machordom, 2000}} * ''Setanida'' {{small|Macpherson, 2006}} * ''Tasmanida'' {{small|Ahyong, 2007}} * ''Torbenella'' {{small|Baba, 2008}}
;Munidopsidae {{small|Ortmann, 1898}} *† ''Brazilomunida'' {{small|Martins-Neto, 2001}} – Upper Cretaceous *† ''Calteagalathea'' {{small|De Angeli & Garassino, 2006}} – Upper Cretaceous *† ''Eomunidopsis'' {{small|Vía Boada, 1981}} – Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous *† ''Faxegalathea'' {{small|Jakobsen & Collins, 1997}} – Lower Paleocene * ''Galacantha'' {{small|A. Milne-Edwards, 1880}} *† ''Gastrosacus'' {{small|von Meyer, 1851}} – Upper Jurassic to Cretaceous * ''Leiogalathea'' {{small|Baba, 1969}} * ''Munidopsis'' {{small|Whiteaves, 1874}} *† ''Munitheities'' {{small|Lőrenthey''in'' Lőrenthey& Beurlen, 1929}} – Upper Jurassic *† ''Palaeomunidopsis'' {{small|Van Straelen, 1925}} – Middle Jurassic *† ''Paragalathea'' {{small|Patrulius, 1960}} – Upper Jurassic to Cretaceous * ''Shinkaia'' {{small|Baba & Williams, 1998}}
;Porcellanidae {{small|Haworth, 1825}} * ''Aliaporcellana'' {{small|Nakasone & Miyake, 1969}} * ''Allopetrolisthes'' {{small|Haig, 1960}} * ''Ancylocheles'' {{small|Haig, 1978}} *† ''Annieporcellana'' {{small|Fraaije, Van Bakel, Jagt & Artal, 2008}} *† ''Beripetrolisthes'' {{small|De Angeli & Garassino, 2002}} * ''Capilliporcellana'' {{small|Haig, 1978}} * ''Clastotoechus'' {{small|Haig, 1960}} * ''Enosteoides'' {{small|Johnson, 1970}} *† ''Eopetrolisthes'' {{small|De Angeli & Garassino, 2002}} * ''Euceramus'' {{small|Stimpson, 1860}} * ''Eulenaios'' {{small|Ng & Nakasone, 1993}} * ''Heteropolyonyx'' {{small|Osawa, 2001}} * ''Heteroporcellana'' {{small|Haig, 1978}} * ''Liopetrolisthes'' {{small|Haig, 1960}} * ''Lissoporcellana'' {{small|Haig, 1978}} *† ''Lobipetrolisthes'' {{small|De Angeli & Garassino, 2002}} *† ''Longoporcellana'' {{small|Müller & Collins, 1991}} * ''Madarateuchus'' {{small|Harvey, 1999}} * ''Megalobrachium'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} * ''Minyocerus'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} * ''Neopetrolisthes'' {{small|Miyake, 1937}} * ''Neopisosoma'' {{small|Haig, 1960}} * ''Novorostrum'' {{small|Osawa, 1998}} * ''Orthochela'' {{small|Glassell, 1936}} * ''Pachycheles'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} * ''Parapetrolisthes'' {{small|Haig, 1962}} * ''Petrocheles'' {{small|Miers, 1876}} * ''Petrolisthes'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} * ''Pisidia'' {{small|Leach, 1820}} * ''Polyonyx'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} * ''Porcellana'' {{small|Lamarck, 1801}} * ''Porcellanella'' {{small|White, 1852}} *† ''Porcellanoidea'' {{small|C.-H. Hu & Tao, 1996}} * ''Pseudoporcellanella'' {{small|Sankarankutty, 1961}} * ''Raphidopus'' {{small|Stimpson, 1858}} * ''Ulloaia'' {{small|Glassell, 1938}} *† ''Vibrissalana'' {{small|Robins & Klompmaker, 2019}}
==Fossil record== Two further fossil taxa may be included in the superfamily,<ref name="Grave"/> but were not considered in the latest synopsis.<ref name="Ahyong"/> The family Retrorsichelidae contains the single species, ''Retrorsichela laevis'' from the Campanian, which was tentatively placed in Galatheoidea by its authors.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rodney M. Feldmann |author2=Dale M. Tshudy |author3=Michael R. A. Thomson |year=1993 |title=Late Cretaceous and Paleocene Decapod Crustaceans from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=Memoir 28 |issue=Supplement to volume 67, issue 1 |pages=1–41 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000062077 |jstor=1315582 |bibcode=1993JPal...67S...1F |s2cid=133766674 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/10544/10544.pdf }}</ref> The Eocene genus ''Ovocarcinus'', containing only ''O. elongatus'', was originally placed ''incertae sedis''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=P. Müller |author2=J. S. H. Collins |year=1991 |title=Late Eocene coral–associated decapods (Crustacea) from Hungary |journal=Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology |volume=28 |issue=2–3 |pages=47–92 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/10688/10688.pdf }}</ref>
==See also== *Chirostyloidea, the other superfamily of squat lobsters
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
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Category:Anomura Category:Middle Jurassic first appearances Category:Crustacean superfamilies