| Galathea | |
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| Galathea squamifera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Galatheidae |
| Genus: | Galathea Fabricius, 1793 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Cancer strigosus Linnaeus, 1761 [2] | |
| Species | |
See text | |
Galathea is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae. [3] It is one of the largest genera of squat lobsters that in 2008 contained 73 species (17 in the Atlantic Ocean, 25 in the Indian Ocean and 43 in the Pacific Ocean) [2] (several more have been described more recently [3] ). Most species of Galathea live in shallow waters. [2]
