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

Chirostyloidea Ortmann, 1892

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892
Eumunididae A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900
Sternostylidae Baba, Ahyong & Schnabel, 2018

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: squat lobsters

Literature

original description

Ortmann, A. (1892). Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museum, mit beson derer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Doederlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum aufbe wahrten Formen. IV. Theil. Die Abtheilungen Galatheidea und Paguridea. Zoologishe Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 6: 241–326.

basis of record

Schnabel, K. E. & S. T. Ahyong (2010) A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa 2687: 56-64.

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Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Chirostyloidea Ortmann, 1892. 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:562583

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2022-08-23 by Christopher B. Boyko

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