Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Anomura > Superfamily Galatheoidea > Family Galatheidae > Genus Galathea

Galathea rufipes A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1894

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Galathea*	Fabricius, 1793	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Milne-Edwards, A.; Bouvier, E.L. (1894). Considerations génerales sur la famille des Galatheides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, ser. 7. 16: 191–327.
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.; Ahyong, S.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa. 1905: 1-220.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Galathea rufipes A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1894. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107153