Lepidophthalmus

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Lepidophthalmus
Lepidophthalmus turneranus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Callianassidae
Subfamily: Callichirinae
Genus: Lepidophthalmus
Holmes, 1904
Type species
Lepidophthalmus eiseni
Holmes, 1904

Lepidophthalmus is a genus of ghost shrimp, containing the following species:[1]

  • Lepidophthalmus bocourti (A. Milne-Edwards, 1870)
  • Lepidophthalmus eiseni Holmes, 1904
  • Lepidophthalmus grandidieri (Coutière, 1899)
  • Lepidophthalmus jamaicense (Schmitt, 1935)
  • Lepidophthalmus louisianensis (Schmitt, 1935)
  • Lepidophthalmus manningi Feder & Staton, 2000
  • Lepidophthalmus rafai Felder & Manning, 1998
  • Lepidophthalmus richardi Felder & Manning, 1997
  • Lepidophthalmus rosae (Nobili, 1904)
  • Lepidophthalmus sinuensis Lemaitre & Rodrigues, 1991
  • Lepidophthalmus siriboia Felder & Rodrigues, 1993
  • Lepidophthalmus socotrensis Sakai & Apel, 2002
  • Lepidophthalmus tridentatus (Von Martens, 1868)
  • Lepidophthalmus turneranus (White, 1861)

Only one species is known from the fossil record:[2] remains attributable to the extant species Lepidophthalmus jamaicense have been found in Upper Pleistocene deposits at Port Morant Harbour in the parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica.[3]

References

  1. G. C. B. Poore (2010). "Lepidophthalmus Holmes, 1904". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved September 1, 2010. 
  2. Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. 
  3. J. S. H. Collins, S. K. Donovan & T. A. Stemann (2009). "Fossil Crustacea of the Late Pleistocene Port Morant Formation, west Port Morant Harbour, southeastern Jamaica". Scripta Geologica 138: 23–53. 


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