Leiogalathea agassizii ( A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 )

Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, Zootaxa 3754 (4), pp. 381-419 : 404

Leiogalathea agassizii ( A. Milne-Edwards, 1880)

Leiogalathea agassizii has previously been reported as Galathea agassizii (see Baba et al. 2008) from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in depths of 300 to 1050 m ( Milne-Edwards 1880; Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1900; Chace 1942). All specimens available were from seaward of Port Aransas, Texas, from a depth of 73 m. No ovigerous females were collected for this study. Three females and three males were collected in July (CW from 2.4 to 4.2 mm).