Lauriea, a New Genus Proposed for Galathea gardineri LAURIE (Crustacea, Anomura, Galatheidae) By

Galathea gardineri LAURIE, 1926, known as an aberrant form was considered to be placed in a different genus rather than in the present. A new generic name, Lauriea, was hereby proposed. In the course of revising the Japanese galatheids, special attention has been paid to Galathea gardineri LAURIE. This species has only three times been recorded, including Galathea biunguiculata MIYAKE which was considered by TIRMIZI (1966) a synonym of this species and was known from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Palau Islands. Very recently I had a chance to examine a single specimen identical with this species from the north coast of Kyushu, Japan. From an examination of the specimen and previous records the species proved to be quite aberrant in shapes of dactyli of walking legs, endopods of uropods and third thoracic sternites. Likewise the absence of first pleopods appears, so far as I know, only in this species and Phylladiorhynchus pusillus (HENDERSON) when we consider this regard in Galathea s.l. For this reason it is thought that the species in question is placed in a different genus rather than in Galathea. A new genus, Lauriea, was therefore established in honour of R. D. LAURIE who is the firs