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Chirostyloidea

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Chirostyloidea is an anomuran superfamily with squat lobster-like representatives. It comprises the three families Chirostylidae, Eumunididae and Kiwaidae.^[1] Although representatives of Chirostyloidea are superficially similar to galatheoid squat lobsters, they are more closely related to Lomisoidea and Aegloidea together forming the clade Australopoda.^[2] No fossils can be confidently assigned to the Chirostyloidea, although Pristinaspina may belong either in the family Kiwaidae or Chirostylidae.^[3]

^ "Chirostyloidea". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
^ K. E. Schnabel; S. T. Ahyong; E. W. Maas (2011). "Galatheoidea are not monophyletic – molecular and morphological phylogeny of the squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura) with recognition of a new superfamily". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58 (2): 157–168. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.011. PMID 21095236.
^ Kareen E. Schnabel; Patricia Cabezas; Anna McCallum; Enrique Macpherson; Shane T. Ahyong; Keiji Baba (2011). "Worldwide distribution patterns of marine squat lobsters". In Gary Poore; Shane Ahyong; Joanne Taylor (eds.). The Biology of Squat Lobsters. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 149–182. ISBN 978-0-643-10172-2.

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Chirostyloidea is an anomuran superfamily with squat lobster-like representatives. It comprises the three families Chirostylidae, Eumunididae and Kiwaidae. Although representatives of Chirostyloidea are superficially similar to galatheoid squat lobsters, they are more closely related to Lomisoidea and Aegloidea together forming the clade Australopoda. No fossils can be confidently assigned to the Chirostyloidea, although Pristinaspina may belong either in the family Kiwaidae or Chirostylidae.