Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards 1880
Creators: name: Published, First
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Galatheidae
Galacantha

description: Key to species of the genus Galacantha   
1. Carapace with a single prominent spine on anterior lateral margin.......................................................... 2  
- Carapace with 2 prominent spines on anterior lateral margin................................................................... 3  
 2. Carapace with 2 epigastric spines.......................................................................... G. valdiviae Balss, 1913   
 - Carapace without epigastric spines.................................................................................... G. quiquei n. sp.   
3. Rostrum without spines at end of horizontal portion................................................................................. 4  
- Rostrum with 2 divergent or subparallel spines at end of horizontal portion............................................ 6  
 4. Abdomen smooth on tergites, tuberculate on pleura. Scale-like ridges in transverse rows on posterior half of carapace.......................................................................................................... G. diomedeae Faxon, 1893   
- Abdomen tuberculate on tergites and pleura. Tubercles in transverse rows on posterior half of carapace 5  
 5. Mesogastric spine with posterior margin clearly convex. Carapace lateral margin with first (anterolateral) spine more than 3 times longer than second (hepatic) spine............... G. spinosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880   
 - Mesogastric spine with posterior margin straight. Carapace lateral margin with first (anterolateral) spine less than 3 times length of second (hepatic) spine........................................................ G. subspinosa n. sp.   
6. Rostrum with 2 divergent spines at end of horizontal portion, clearly discernible in dorsal view............ 7  
- Rostrum with 2 small subparallel spines, at end of horizontal portion, not discernible in dorsal view.... 8  
 7. Carapace covered with spines..................................................................... G. trachynotus Anderson, 1896   
 - Carapace covered with simple or scale-like tubercles ........................ G. rostrata A. Milne-Edwards, 1880   
 8. Abdominal tergite 4 with transverse groove between ridges interrupted medially. First spine (anterolateral) on anterolateral margin of carapace larger than second (hepatic) spine............. G. subrostrata n. sp.   
 - Abdominal tergite 4 with transverse groove between ridges not interrupted medially. First spine (anterolateral) on anterolateral margin of carapace smaller than second (hepatic) spine..................................................................................................................................................................... G. bellis Henderson, 1885
description: Published as part of Published, First, 2007, Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae), pp. 1-135 in Zootaxa 1417 on page 9