Callianassa (genus)

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Callianassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Thalassinidea
Family: Callianassidae
Genus: Callianassa
Leach, 1814 [1]
Species

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Callianassa is a genus of mud shrimps, in the family Callianassidae. Three of the species in this genus (C. candida, C. tyrrhena and C. whitei) have been split off into a new genus, Pestarella [2].

[edit] Species

  • Callianassa articulata Rathbun
  • Callianassa australiensis Dana
  • Callianassa californiensis
  • Callianassa filholi (Milne-Edwards, 1878)
  • Callianassa japonica Ortmann, 1891 — Japanese ghost shrimp
  • Callianassa kraussi Stebbing, 1900 — pink ghost shrimp
  • Callianassa lanceolata
  • Callianassa major
  • Callianassa oahuensis
  • Callianassa parva Edmondson, 1944
  • Callianassa petalura Stimpson, 1860 — flower ghost shrimp
  • Callianassa subterranea (Montagu, 1808)
  • Callianassa turnerana White, 1861 — Cameroon ghost shrimp
  • Callianassa variabilis
  • Callianassa vigilax de Man
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[edit] References

Wikispecies has information related to:
  1. ^ Callianassa (TSN 98207). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ^ Nguyen Ngoc-Ho (2003). European and Mediterranean Thalassinidea (Crustacea, Decapoda). Zoosystema 25 (3): 439–555. 


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