Galathea corallicola Haswell, 1882

Macpherson, Enrique & Robainas-Barcia, Aymee, 2015, Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species, Zootaxa 3913 (1), pp. 1-335 : 91

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5135983
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scientific name	Galathea corallicola Haswell, 1882
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Galathea corallicola Haswell, 1882 View in CoL

Galathea corallicola Haswell, 1882a: 761 View in CoL (Port Molle, Queensland, tide marks).— Haswell, 1882b: 162 (no record).— Whitelegge, 1900: 190 (no record).— Haig, 1974: 447 (Western Australia).— Davie, 2002: 61 (no record).—Macpherson, 2008: 290, fig. 1 (syntypes, Port Molle, Queensland, tide marks).—Baba et al., 2008: 68 (compilation).

Dubious identifications:

Galathea corallicola View in CoL . — Southwell, 1906: 220 ( Sri Lanka S of Galle, off Kaltura, coral reefs in Gulf of Manaar, shallow water to 183 m).

Material examined. Papua New Guinea. PAPUA NIUGINI, Stn PR69, 05°01.6'S, 145°48.1'E, 2-15 m, 20 November 2012: 1 ov. F 3.2 mm (MNHN-IU-2013-8403).

Australia. South Australia. Edithburgh jetty, 35.085°S, 137.749°E, 1–3 m, 3 May 2009: 1 F 3.7 mm (UF19005). Remarks. The two specimens agree quite well with the type material. G. corallicola is close to G. eupompe n. sp. (see Remarks of the latter species). No genetic data are availablr for G. corallicola .

Distribution. Australia (Queensland and South Australia), Papua New Guinea, 1– 15 m.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Galatheidae
Genus	Galathea