Crangonidae

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

The family Crangonidae is a taxon of shrimp, of the superfamily Crangonoidea, including the commercially important species Crangon crangon. Its type genus is Crangon. 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
  • MorscrangonGarassino & 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". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. 
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