Lauriea

Lauriea
Lauriea siagiani in a giant barrel sponge
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

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.