Crangonidae

Crangonidae is a family of shrimp, of the superfamily Crangonoidea, including the commercially important species Crangon crangon. Its type genus is Crangon.

Crangonidae
Crangon crangon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily: Crangonoidea
Family: Crangonidae
Haworth, 1825
Genera

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Twenty-four genera are included in the family:[1]

  • Aegaeon Agassiz, 1846
  • Argis Krøyer, 1842
  • Crangon Fabricius, 1798
  • Lissocrangon Kuris & Carlton, 1977
  • Lissosabinea Christoffersen, 1988
  • Mesocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
  • Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965
  • Morscrangon Garassino & Jakobsen, 2005
  • Neocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
  • Notocrangon Coutière, 1900
  • Paracrangon Dana, 1852a
  • Parapontocaris Alcock, 1901
  • Parapontophilus Christoffersen, 1988
  • Philocheras Stebbing, 1900
  • Placopsicrangon Komai & Chan, 2009
  • Pontocaris Bate, 1888
  • Pontophilus Leach, 1817
  • Pseudopontophilus Komai, 2004
  • Prionocrangon Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
  • Rhynocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
  • Sabinea J. C. Ross, 1835
  • Sclerocrangon Sars, 1883
  • Syncrangon Kim & Hayashi, 2003
  • Vercoia Baker, 1904

References

  1. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.


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