Hippolytidae

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Hippolytidae
Lysmata debelius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily: Alpheoidea
Family: Hippolytidae
Dana, 1852
Genera

See text.

Hippolytidae is a family of cleaner shrimp, also known as broken-back shrimp or anemone shrimp. The term "broken-back shrimp" also applies to the genus Hippolyte in particular and "cleaner shrimp" is sometimes applied exclusively to Lysmata amboinensis.

[edit] Genera

  • Bythocaris
  • Caridion
  • Calliasmata
  • Cryptocheles
  • Eualus
  • Exhippolysmata
  • Gelastocaris
  • Heptacarpus
  • Hetairus
  • Hippolysmata
  • Hippolyte
  • Latreutes
  • Lebbeus
  • Leontocaris
  • Leptodius
  • Ligur
  • Lysmata
  • Lysmatella
  • Merhippolyte
  • Saron
  • Spirontocaris
  • Thor
  • Thoralus
  • Tozeuma
  • Trachycaris


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