Chirostyloidea

Chirostyloidea
Eumunida picta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Chirostyloidea
Ortmann, 1892
Families

Chirostyloidea is an anomuran superfamily with squat lobster-like representatives. It comprises the three families Chirostylidae, Eumunididae and Kiwaidae.[1] Although representatives of Chirostyloidea are superficially similar to galatheoid squat lobsters, they are more closely related to Lomisoidea and Aegloidea together forming the clade Australopoda.[2] No fossils can be confidently assigned to the Chirostyloidea, although Pristinaspina may belong either in the family Kiwaidae or Chirostylidae.[3]

Genera

Chirostyloidea contains the following families and genera:[4]

Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892
Eumunididae A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900
Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005
  • Kiwa Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005
† Pristinaspinidae Ahyong & Roterman, 2014
Sternostylidae Baba, Ahyong & Schnabel, 2018

References

  1. ^ "Chirostyloidea". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
  2. ^ K. E. Schnabel; S. T. Ahyong; E. W. Maas (2011). "Galatheoidea are not monophyletic – molecular and morphological phylogeny of the squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura) with recognition of a new superfamily". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58 (2): 157–168. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.011. PMID 21095236.
  3. ^ Kareen E. Schnabel; Patricia Cabezas; Anna McCallum; Enrique Macpherson; Shane T. Ahyong; Keiji Baba (2011). "Worldwide distribution patterns of marine squat lobsters". In Gary Poore; Shane Ahyong; Joanne Taylor (eds.). The Biology of Squat Lobsters. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 149–182. ISBN 978-0-643-10172-2.
  4. ^ Boyko, Christopher B. (23 August 2022). "Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 October 2024.