Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Polychelida > Superfamily Eryonoidea > Family Polychelidae > Subfamily Polychelinae > Genus Stereomastis

Stereomastis nana (Smith, 1884)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stereomastis*	Spence Bate, 1888	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pentacheles nanus*	Smith, 1884	synonym
*Polycheles Grimaldii*	Bouvier, 1905	synonym
*Polycheles nanus*	(Smith, 1884)	synonym
*Stereomastis grimaldii*	(Bouvier, 1905)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: dwarf blind lobster sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: polychèle naine sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

Japanese: ヒメセンジュエビ

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	Galil, B.S. (2000). Crustacea Decapoda: review of the genera and species of the family Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. In: Crosnier, A. (ed.) (2000). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 21. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, A (Zoologie). 184: 285–387.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Stereomastis nana (Smith, 1884). 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:107699