Chirostylus

Chirostylus
Chirostylus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Chirostylidae
Genus: Chirostylus
Ortmann, 1892

Chirostylus is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Chirostylidae, containing the following species:[1]

  • Chirostylus dolichopus Ortmann, 1892
  • Chirostylus micheleae Tirmizi & Khan, 1979
  • Chirostylus novaecaledoniae Baba, 1991
  • Chirostylus ortmanni Miyake & Baba, 1968
  • Chirostylus rostratus Osawa & Nishikiori, 1998
  • Chirostylus stellaris Osawa, 2007

References

  1. ^ Keiji Baba, Enrique Macpherson, Gary C. B. Poore, Shane T. Ahyong, Adriana Bermudez, Patricia Cabezas, Chia-Wei Lin, Martha Nizinski, Celso Rodrigues & Kareen E. Schnabel (2008). "Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)". Zootaxa 1905: 1–220. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01905p220.pdf.