Galathea aegyptiaca, Paulson, 1875

Baba, Keiji, Macpherson, Enrique, Poore, Gary C. B., Ahyong, Shane T., Bermudez, Adriana, Cabezas, Patricia, Lin, Chia-Wei, Nizinski, Martha, Rodrigues, Celso & Schnabel, Kareen E., 2008, Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura-families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae), Zootaxa 1905 (1), pp. 1-220 : 64

Galathea aegyptiaca Paul’son, 1875

Galathea australiensis . — Ortmann, 1892: 251, pl. 11, figs 8, 8a, 8i (Amami-oshima, Ryukyu Islands). — Borradaile, 1900: 421 (Lifu, Loyalty Islands). — De Man, 1902: 710 ( Ternate). — Balss, 1913b: 2 (Red Sea). — Laurie, 1926: 123 (Amirante, Saya De Malha Bank, Cargados Carazos, 37–146 m). — Melin, 1939: 56, figs 32–35 (Port Lloyd, Taninoura and Kopepe Bay (Bonin Islands)). — Barnard, 1958: 4 (Delagoa Bay). — Miyake & Baba, 1966a: 60, figs 3–5 (Ishigaki-jima, Okinawa-jima, Amami-oshima, intertidal).

Galathea aegyptiaca Paul’son, 1875: 94, pl. 12, figs 1, 1a–b (Red Sea). — Nobili, 1906a: 126, fig. 8, pl. 7, fig. 3 (Red Sea). — Lewinsohn, 1969: 98, fig. 18 (Red Sea, 0–3 m). — Haig, 1974: 447 (Western Australia). — Baba, 1977a: 244 (near Timor, Obi, Talaud and Holandia Bay, New Guinea, 0–10 m). — Baba, 1979b: 645 (Marsegu Island and Gorong Island, subtidal). — Baba, 1982b 59 ( Palau Islands and Yap Island, subtidal). — Garth et al., 1987: 252 (list). — Kamezaki et al., 1988: 95, with color fig. (Okinawa). — Baba, 1990: 952 ( Madagascar, intertidal – 50 m). — Tirmizi & Javed, 1993: 61, fig. 27 (N Madagascar and Mozambique Channel, 1.5– 62 m). — Wu et al., 1998: 88, figs 8, 12E (Taiwan). — Davie, 2002: 60 (no record).

Type data: not located.

Type locality: Red Sea.