Uroptychus orientalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Chirostylidae
Genus: Uroptychus
Species:
U. orientalis
Binomial name
Uroptychus orientalis
Baba & Lin, 2008

Uroptychus orientalis is a species of chirostylid squat lobster first found in Taiwan. This species is separated from U. occidentalis by its shorter antennal scale and dactyli P2โ€“4 with their ultimate and penultimate spines being subequal in size.[1]

References

  1. โ†‘ Baba, Keiji, and Chia-Wei Lin. "Five new species of chirostylid crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from Taiwan." Zootaxa 1919 (2008): 1-24.

Further reading

  • Baba, Keiji, et al. "Eumunida Smith, 1883."
  • Macpherson, Enrique, and Keiji Baba. "2 Taxonomy of squat lobsters." The Biology of Squat Lobsters 20 (2011): 39.
  • Baeza, J. Antonio. "8 Squat lobsters as symbionts and in chemo-autotrophic environments." The Biology of Squat Lobsters 20 (2011): 249.
  • Tsang, Ling Ming, et al. "Hermit to king, or hermit to all: multiple transitions to crab-like forms from hermit crab ancestors." Systematic biology 60.5 (2011): 616โ€“629.


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