Chirostyloidea

Chirostyloidea
Eumunida picta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Superfamily:	Chirostyloidea Ortmann, 1892
Families
Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892 Eumunididae A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900 Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005

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

• Chirostylus Ortmann, 1892
• † Eouroptychus De Angeli & Ceccon, 2012
• Gastroptychus Caullery, 1896
• Hapaloptyx Stebbing, 1920
• Heteroptychus Baba, 2018
• † Phalangiopsis Charbonnier, Audo, Garassino & Hyžný, 2017
• Uroptychodes Baba, 2004
• Uroptychus Henderson, 1888

Eumunididae A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900

• Eumunida Smith, 1883
• Pseudomunida Haig, 1979

Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005

• Kiwa Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005

† Pristinaspinidae Ahyong & Roterman, 2014

• † Pristinaspina Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2000

Sternostylidae Baba, Ahyong & Schnabel, 2018

• Sternostylus 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.