Squat lobsters of the superfamily Chirostyloidea (Decapoda: Anomura) from seamounts on the Nishi-Shichito and Mariana ridges, North-West Pacific off Japan, with descriptions of two new species Author Komai, Tomoyuki Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 955 - 2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260 - 8682, Japan. Author Tsuchida, Shinji 0000-0002-8600-2386 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2 - 15, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237 - 0061, Kanagawa, Japan. tsuchidas @ jamstec. go. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8600 - 2386 tsuchidas@jamstec.go.jp Author Fujiwara, Yoshihiro 0000-0002-1833-1866 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2 - 15, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237 - 0061, Kanagawa, Japan. tsuchidas @ jamstec. go. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8600 - 2386 & fujiwara @ jamstec. go. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1833 - 1866 fujiwara@jamstec.go.jp text Zootaxa 2023 2023-05-19 5293 1 45 73 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5293.1.2 journal article 53350 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.1.2 1ae5d11a-5246-409f-aa01-309a45ab0e3d 1175-5326 7959733 727F3FD8-4E36-4F19-AAB2-060121DB9F59 Genus Sternostylus Baba, Ahyong & Schnabel, 2018 [New Japanese name: Tsuno-wara-ebi-zoku] Remarks. Baba et al. (2018) separated the genus Gastroptychus Caullery, 1896 into two genera. Twelve species were assigned to the new genus Sternostylus based on the shape of the sternite 3, which slopes anteriorly with a pair of spines on the anterior surface, the close placement of the maxilliped 3 coxae and the dactyli of the pereopods 2–4 ending in a clearly demarcated, corneous unguis. Using molecular evidence, Schnabel (2020) showed that Sternostylus is indeed in intermediate position between Kiwaidae and Chirostylidae . Since the establishment of Sternostylus and Sternostylidae by Baba et al. (2018) , two new species have been described from the West Pacific region ( Schnabel 2020 ; Dong et al. 2021 ). Including the present new species, 15 species are now contained in Sternostylus .