Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Uroptychus occidentalis Faxon, 1893

Langosta, Lobsters

Taxonomy

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

Distribution

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).

References

  • 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.