| Chirostyloidea | |
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| Eumunida picta | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Malacostraca | 
| Order: | Decapoda | 
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata | 
| Infraorder: | Anomura | 
| Superfamily: | Chirostyloidea Ortmann, 1892  | 
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The squat lobster (Eumunida picta).
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
- Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892
 
- Chirostylus Ortmann, 1892
 - Gastroptychus Caullery, 1896
 - Hapaloptyx Stebbing, 1920
 - 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
 
References
- ↑ "Chirostyloidea". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
 - ↑ 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.
 - ↑ 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.
 
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