Chirostyloidea

Chirostyloidea
Eumunida picta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
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 four families Chirostylidae, Eumunididae, Kiwaidae, and Sternostylidae. 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. No fossils can be confidently assigned to the Chirostyloidea, although Pristinaspina may belong either in the family Kiwaidae or Chirostylidae.

Genera

Chirostyloidea contains the following families and genera:

Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892
Eumunididae A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900
Kiwaidae 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. ↑ Hwang, Hee-seung; Jung, Jibom (2026-01-12). "Comparative phylomitogenomic analyses provide insights into adaptation and carcinization in Anomura". Animal Cells and Systems. 30 (1): 83–103. doi:10.1080/19768354.2025.2607863. ISSN 1976-8354.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Boyko, Christopher B. (23 August 2022). "Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 October 2024.