Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Anomura - Galatheidae - Galathea

Galathea subsquamata Stimpson, 1858



Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Society (Moorea, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Takapoto) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Hard bottom.

Regional Records: Galathea aculeata - Odinetz, 1983: 208 (Moorea, Tahiti, Takapoto). - Odinetz-Collart & Richer de Forges, 1985: 201 (Moorea and/or Tahiti, Takapoto). - Monteforte, 1987: 8 (Moorea). - Poupin, 1996a: 19 (Checklist). - Galathea subsquamata - Baba, 1977: (Syn., not seen). - Remark: e-mail Baba 23/09/98 : Galathea aculeata Haswell is now called Galathea subsquamata Stimpson, 1858 (see Baba, 1977, Zool. Meded. Leiden, 50(15): 247).

References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) - PDF 412 Ko
Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/