Sternostylidae

Also known as: Sternostylid Squat Lobsters

Classification

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Sternostylidae
Published in	Baba, Keiji, Shane T. Ahyong, and Kareen E. Schnabel. (2018). Rediagnosis of the squat lobster genus Gastroptychus Caullery, 1896, with a new genus Sternostylus and a new family Sternostylidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostyloidea). Zootaxa, Vol.
Habitat	MARINE
Genera	1
Species records held	15
Descendant taxa (GBIF)	21
GBIF key	10008586

Genera in Sternostylidae

Sternostylus — 15 species: Sternostylus cavimurus, Sternostylus defensus, Sternostylus formosus, Sternostylus hawaiiensis, Sternostylus hendersoni, Sternostylus iaspis, Sternostylus investigatoris, Sternostylus iocasicus

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Source and Attribution

Taxonomic rank data on this page is drawn from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, doi.org/10.15468/39omei, GBIF Secretariat, licensed CC BY 4.0. Member-species counts are counts of records held in the Sanctum species index, not a claim of completeness for the family.

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