Biology:Chirostyloidea

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Short description: Superfamily of crustaceans

Chirostyloidea
Eumunida picta.jpg
Eumunida picta
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Chirostyloidea
Ortmann, 1892
Families
  • Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892
  • Eumunididae A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900
  • Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005
The squat lobster (Eumunida picta).

Chirostyloidea is an anomuran superfamily with squat lobster-like representatives. It comprises the three families Chirostylidae, Eumunididae and Kiwaidae.[1] Although representatives of Chirostyloidea are superficially similar to galatheoid squat lobsters, they are more closely related to Lomisoidea and Aegloidea together forming the clade Australopoda.[2] No fossils can be confidently assigned to the Chirostyloidea, although Pristinaspina may belong either in the family Kiwaidae or Chirostylidae.[3]

Genera

Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892
  • Chirostylus Ortmann, 1892
  • Gastroptychus Caullery, 1896
  • Hapaloptyx Stebbing, 1920
  • Uroptychodes Baba, 2004
  • Uroptychus Henderson, 1888
Eumunididae A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900
Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005
  • Kiwa Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005

References

  1. "Chirostyloidea". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2012. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=562583. 
  2. K. E. Schnabel; S. T. Ahyong; E. W. Maas (2011). "Galatheoidea are not monophyletic – molecular and morphological phylogeny of the squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura) with recognition of a new superfamily". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58 (2): 157–168. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.011. PMID 21095236. 
  3. Kareen E. Schnabel; Patricia Cabezas; Anna McCallum; Enrique Macpherson; Shane T. Ahyong; Keiji Baba (2011). "Worldwide distribution patterns of marine squat lobsters". The Biology of Squat Lobsters. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 149–182. ISBN 978-0-643-10172-2. 

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