Galathea rostrata A. Milne-Edwards 1880

• Main Authors: Kilgour, Morgan J., Shirley, Thomas C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Galatheidae; Galathea; Galathea rostrata; Bouvier; Macpherson; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5627677; https://zenodo.org/record/5627677

Galathea rostrata A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Galathea rostrata has been reported throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to North Carolina in depths of 22 to 92 m (Milne-Edwards 1880; Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1897; Haig 1956; Baba et al. 2008). The specimens used in this analysis were from the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Florida in depths of 30 to 100 m (Fig. 5). Specimens were collected in every month except December (Fig. 6). A total of 274 specimens was in collections with 145 males, 65 ovigerous females, and 64 non-ovigerous females; only 104 males, 42 ovigerous, and 41 non-ovigerous females were measured. Male carapace width ranged from 1.3 to 5.8 mm. Non-ovigerous female CW ranged from 1.3 to 4.8 mm. Ovigerous female CW ranged from 1.9 to 5.4 mm. The average egg diameter for each female ranged from 0.22 to 0.48 mm, and the number of eggs ranged from one to 204. Males and females did not vary significantly in size (t-test, df = 185, t = 0.825, p = 0.411), but ovigerous females were larger than non-ovigerous females (t-test, df = 81, t = - 2.382, p = 0.020). Fecundity was not significantly correlated with the size of the ovigerous females (R 2 = 0.264, p = 0.082) nor was the average egg diameter correlated with size (R 2 = 0.130, p = 0.092). : Published as part of Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 381-419 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 389, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/229435 : {"references": ["Milne-Edwards, A. (1880) Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, etc. VIII. Etudes preliminaries sur les Crustaces. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 8, 1 - 168.", "Milne-Edwards, A. & Bouvier, E. L. (1897) Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877 - 78), in the Caribbean Sea (1878 - 79), and along the Atlantic coast of the United States (1880), by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer \" Blake, \" Lieut. - Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding. XXXV. Description des Crustaces de la famille des galatheides recueillis pendant l'expedition. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 19, 5 - 141.", "Haig, J. (1956) The Galatheidea (Crustacea Anomura) of the Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition with a review of the Porcellanidae of the western North Atlantic. Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition Report, 8, 1 - 44.", "Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Poore, G. C. B., Ahyong, S. T., Bermudez, A., Cabezas, P., Lin, C., Nizinski, M., Rodrigues, C. & Schnabel, K. E. (2008) Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura-families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa, 1905, 1 - 220."]}