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Lauriea is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae, containing the following species:[1]
- Lauriea gardineri (Laurie, 1926)
- Lauriea siagiani Baba, 1994
The genus was named in 1971 by Keiji Baba in honour of R. D. Laurie, who discovered the first species.[2]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Keiji Baba (1971). "Lauriea, a new genus proposed for Galathea gardineri Laurie (Crustacea, Anomura, Galatheidae)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University. 19: 51–53.
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