Galatheidae

{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Galathea strigosa 02 by Line1.jpg

| image_caption = Galathea strigosa

| taxon = Galatheidae

| authority = Samouelle, 1819

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = see text

}}

The Galatheidae are a family of squat lobsters.

==Genera==

There are 11 living genera^{{{Cite journal |last=Baba |first=K. |last2=Macpherson |first2=E. |last3=Poore |first3=G. C. B. |last4=Ahyong |first4=S. T. |last5=Bermudez |first5=A. |last6=Cabezas |first6=P. |last7=Lin |first7=C. |last8=Nizinski |first8=M. |last9=Rodrigues |first9=C. |last10=Schnabel |first10=K. E. |date=2008 |title=Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae) |url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.1905.1.1 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1905 |issue=1 |pages=1–220}}} and 7 extinct genera in the family Galatheidae:

• † Acanthogalathea Müller & Collins, 1991 – Upper Eocene
• Alainius Baba, 1991
• Allogalathea Baba, 1969
• Allomunida Baba, 1988
• Coralliogalathea Baba & Javed, 1974
• Fennerogalathea Baba, 1988
• Galathea Fabricius, 1793
• Janetogalathea Baba & Wicksten, 1997
• Lauriea Baba, 1971
• † Lessinigalathea De Angeli & Garassino, 2002 – Lower Eocene
• † Lophoraninella Glaessner, 1945 – Upper Cretaceous
• † Luisogalathea Karasawa & Hayakawa, 2000 – Upper Cretaceous
• Macrothea Macpherson & Cleva, 2010
• † Mesogalathea Houša, 1963 – Upper Jurassic to Cretaceous
• Nanogalathea Tirmizi & Javed, 1980
• † Palaeomunida Lőrenthey, 1901 – Upper Jurassic to Oligocene
• Phylladiorhynchus Baba, 1969
• † Spathagalathea De Angeli & Garassino, 2002 – Upper Eocene

† = Extinct genus

Several genera that were previously part of Galatheidae were revised to be part of different families in 2010^{{{Cite journal |last=Ahyong |first=S. T. |last2=Baba |first2=K. |last3=Macpherson |first3=E. |last4=Poore |first4=G. C. B. |date=2010 |title=A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) |url=https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02676p068.pdf |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2676 |pages=57–68}}}.