Galathea_strigosa

<i>Galathea strigosa</i>

Galathea strigosa

Species of squat lobster

Galathea strigosa is a species of squat lobster in the family Galatheidae.[2] It is found in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, from the Nordkapp to the Canary Islands, and in the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea.[3] It is edible, but not fished commercially.[4] It is the largest squat lobster in the northeast Atlantic, reaching a length of 90 millimetres (3.5 in), or a carapace length of 53 mm (2.1 in),[3] and is easily identified by the transverse blue stripes across the body.[4]

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References

  1. [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. [2]
    "Galathea strigosa (Linnaeus, 1761)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  3. [3]
    M. J. de Kluijver; S. S. Ingalsuo. "Galathea strigosa". Macrobenthos of the North Sea: Crustacea. Universiteit van Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021.
  4. [4]
    Kåre Telnes. "Galathea strigosa". Seawater.no. Archived from the original on 2007-12-22.


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