Lauriea

Genus of crustaceans

Lauriea

Lauriea siagiani in a giant barrel sponge
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Malacostraca
Order:  | Decapoda
Suborder:  | Pleocyemata
Infraorder:  | Anomura
Family:  | Galatheidae
Genus:  | Lauriea
Baba, 1971

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

* Lauriea gardineri (Laurie, 1926)
* Lauriea siagiani Baba, 1994

The genus was named in 1971 by Keiji Baba in honour of R. D. Laurie, who discovered the first species.[2]

## References

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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)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1905: 1–220\. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1.
2. ^ Keiji Baba (1971). "Lauriea, a new genus proposed for Galathea gardineri Laurie (Crustacea, Anomura, Galatheidae)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University. 19: 51–53.

Taxon identifiers

Lauriea|

* Wikidata: Q2680052
* Wikispecies: Lauriea
* ADW: Lauriea
* AFD: Lauriea
* BOLD: 193282
* GBIF: 4311208
* iNaturalist: 201261
* IRMNG: 1286865
* NCBI: 1273546
* Open Tree of Life: 465240
* WoRMS: 387306

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