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 strigosa (Linnaeus, 1761)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Galathea*	Fabricius, 1793	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cancer strigosus*	Linnaeus, 1761	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: sastre sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Dutch: blauwgestreepte springkrab; bonte galathea

English: spinous squad lobster; strigose squat lobster sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

French: galathée multicolore sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

German: Blaugestreifter Springkrebs; Blaustreifen-Springkrebs; bunte Galathea; Bunter Furchenkrebs; Bunter Springkrebs sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Norwegian Bokmål: krinakrabbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: krinakrabbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: sastre sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Swedish: trollhummer

Literature

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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
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.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Lewinsohn, C. (1969). Die Anomuren des Roten Meeres (Crustacea Decapoda: Paguridae, Galatheidae, Hippidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden). 104: 1-213.
source of synonymy	Ahyong, S.T., Low, M.E.Y., Macpherson, E. & Tan, S.H. (2017). Cancer strigosus Linnaeus, 1760: neotype selection, its identification with Cancer cancharus Linnaeus, 1758, and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae). Zootaxa. 4323: 440–444.
source of synonymy	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 strigosa (Linnaeus, 1761). 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:107155