Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Uroptychus occidentalis
Langosta, Lobsters
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Chirostyloidea
Family
Chirostylidae
Genus
Uroptychus
Species
occidentalis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Uroptychus nitidus occidentalis Faxon, 1893 (Horton et al., 2021). MCCDRS-9330
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Panama and Galapagos Island in Santa Cruz and San Cristobal (Baba & Wicksten, 2019).
- Baba, K. Wicksten, M. (2019) Chirostyloidean squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the Galapagos Islands Zootaxa, 4564(2), 391–421. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4564.2.5
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Salinas-de-León, P. Martí-Puig, P., Buglass, S., Arnés-Urgellés, C., Rastoin-Laplane, E., Creemers, M., Cairns, S., Fisher, C., O Hara, T., Ott, B., Raineault, N. A., Reiswig, H., Rouse, G., Rowley, S., Shank, T. M., Suarez, J., Watling, L., Wicksten, M. K., & Marsh, L. (2020) Characterization of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna of the Galapagos Islands Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70744-1
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"Galapagos Species Database, Uroptychus occidentalis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19363. Accessed 31 October 2026.