Lauriea

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Hairy Squat Lobster (14487442863).jpg

| image_caption = Lauriea siagiani in a giant barrel sponge

| taxon = Lauriea

| authority = Baba, 1971

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Lauriea is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae, containing the following species:{{cite journal |journal=Zootaxa |title=Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae) |author1=Keiji Baba |author2=Enrique Macpherson |author3=Gary C. B. Poore |author4=Shane T. Ahyong |author5=Adriana Bermudez |author6=Patricia Cabezas |author7=Chia-Wei Lin |author8=Martha Nizinski |author9=Celso Rodrigues |author10=Kareen E. Schnabel |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01905p220.pdf |volume=1905 |pages=1–220 |year=2008|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1 |doi-access=free }}

• 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.{{cite journal |author=Keiji Baba |year=1971 |title=Lauriea, a new genus proposed for Galathea gardineri Laurie (Crustacea, Anomura, Galatheidae) |journal=Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University |volume=19 |pages=51–53 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/13212/13212.pdf }}