''Lauriea siagiani'', is a species of
squat lobster
Squat lobsters are dorsoventrally flattened crustaceans with long tails held curled beneath the cephalothorax. They are found in the two superfamilies Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea, which form part of the decapod infraorder Anomura, alongside ...
in the family
Galatheidae
The Galatheidae are a family of squat lobsters.
Genera
There are 11 living genera and 7 extinct genera in the family Galatheidae:
*† ''Acanthogalathea'' Müller & Collins, 1991 – Upper Eocene
* '' Alainius'' Baba, 1991
* '' Allogalathea'' ...
, genus ''
Lauriea
''Lauriea'' is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae
The Galatheidae are a family of squat lobsters.
Genera
There are 11 living genera and 7 extinct genera in the family Galatheidae:
*† ''Acanthogalathea'' Müller & Collins ...
''.
Description
''Lauriea siagiani'' is a small squat lobster, up to long. It differs from the only other species in the genus, ''
Lauriea gardineri
''Lauriea'' is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae
The Galatheidae are a family of squat lobsters.
Genera
There are 11 living genera and 7 extinct genera in the family Galatheidae:
*† ''Acanthogalathea'' Müller & Collins ...
'' by a number of features, but most obviously by the coloration: ''L. gardineri'' is pale brown with darker bands, while ''L. siagiani'' is orange or pink with red or purplish markings.
Distribution and ecology
''Lauriea siagiani'' is found around the giant
sponge
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through t ...
''
Xestospongia testudinaria
''Xestospongia testudinaria'' is a species of barrel sponge in the family Petrosiidae. More commonly known as Giant Barrel Sponges, they have the basic structure of a typical sponge. Their body is made of a reticulation of cells aggregate on a s ...
'', and has been recorded from
Indonesia
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, the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
and
Japan
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.
Taxonomy
''Lauriea siagiani'' was described in 1994 by Keiji Baba; the
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
commemorates Wilhelm Siagian, who collected the
type material
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes t ...
.
The species had been previously illustrated by the photographer Roger Steene (as "''Galathea'' sp."), from which Baba recognised that it must represent a new species.
References
External links
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ZooBankExplorer's Log- Image and occurrence point data, link to video
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Squat lobsters
Crustaceans described in 1994