Oplophoridae

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Oplophoridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily: Oplophoroidea
Dana, 1852
Family: Oplophoridae
Dana, 1852
Genera

Acanthephyra
Ephyrina
Heterogenys
Hymenodora
Janicella
Kemphyra
Meningodora
Notostomus
Oplophorus
Systellaspis

The family Oplophoridae is a taxon of pelagic shrimps and the only subtaxon of the superfamily Oplophoroidea. These species are commonly known as oplophorid shrimps.


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