Callianassa

Callianassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Thalassinidea
Family: Callianassidae
Genus: Callianassa
Leach, 1814 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Gebios Risso, 1822
  • Montagua Leach, 1814
Callianassa is also one of the Nereids.

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,[3] while others such as Callianassa filholi have been moved to Biffarius.[4]

Forty-six species are currently recognised in the genus Callianassa:[2]

  • Callianassa acutirostella Sakai, 1988
  • Callianassa affinis A. Milne-Edwards, 1861
  • Callianassa amplimaxilla Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa anoploura Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa aqabaensis Dworschak, 2003
  • Callianassa australis Kensley, 1974
  • Callianassa bangensis Sakai, 2005
  • Callianassa batei Woodward, 1869
  • Callianassa brachytelson Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa brevirostris Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa chakratongae Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa contipes Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa costaricensis Sakai, 2005
  • Callianassa diaphora Le Loeuff & Intes, 1974
  • Callianassa exilimaxilla Sakai, 2005
  • Callianassa gravieri Nobili, 1905
  • Callianassa gruneri Sakai, 1999
  • Callianassa intermedia De Man, 1905
  • Callianassa joculatrix De Man, 1905
  • Callianassa lignicola Alcock & Anderson, 1899
  • Callianassa limosa Poore, 1975
  • Callianassa lobetobensis De Man, 1905
  • Callianassa longicauda Sakai, 1967
  • Callianassa malaccaensis Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa marchali Le Loeuff & Intes, 1974
  • Callianassa matzi Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa mocambiquensis Sakai, 2004
  • Callianassa modesta De Man, 1905
  • Callianassa nieli Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa nigroculata Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa parva Edmondson, 1944
  • Callianassa parvula Sakai, 1988
  • Callianassa persica Sakai, 2005
  • Callianassa plantei Sakai, 2004
  • Callianassa propriopedis Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa pugnatrix De Man, 1905
  • Callianassa pygmaea De Man, 1928
  • Callianassa rathbunae Glaessner, 1929
  • Callianassa sahul Poore, 2008
  • Callianassa spinoculata Sakai, 2005
  • Callianassa stenomastaxa Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa subterranea (Montagu, 1808)
  • Callianassa tabogensis Sakai, 2005
  • Callianassa tenuipes Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa thailandica Sakai, 2005
  • Callianassa thorsoni Sakai, 2005

References

  1. ^ "Callianassa". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=97733. 
  2. ^ a b Gary C. B. Poore & Michael Türkay (2010). "Callianassa Leach, 1814". World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107072. Retrieved September 1, 2010. 
  3. ^ Nguyen Ngoc-Ho (2003). "European and Mediterranean Thalassinidea (Crustacea, Decapoda)". Zoosystema 25 (3): 439–555. http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z03n3a5.pdf. 
  4. ^ Gary C. B. Poore (2010). "Biffarius filholi (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878)". World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=477616. Retrieved May 26, 2010.