Crangon

Crangon
Crangon crangon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Crangonidae
Genus: Crangon
Fabricius, 1798
[non Weber, 1795]
Type species
Cancer Crangon
Linnaeus, 1758

Crangon is a genus of shrimp.

Distribution

Crangon species are found exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere, with most of the species occurring in the northern Pacific Ocean.[1] C. septemspinosa is the only species in the genus to occur in the north-western Atlantic Ocean, while in the north-eastern Atlantic, C. crangon and C. allmani occur.[1] With the exception of the important commercial species C. crangon, however, the distributions of Crangon species are poorly characterised.[1] The greater number of species in the Pacific Ocean is thought to indicate that the genus originated in the Pacific.[1]

Species

Crangon contains the following extant species:[2]

  • Crangon affinis De Haan, 1849
  • Crangon alaskensis Lockington, 1877
  • Crangon alba Holmes, 1900
  • Crangon allmani Kinahan, 1860
  • Crangon amurensis Bražnikov, 1907
  • Crangon capensis Stimpson, 1860
  • Crangon cassiope De Man, 1906
  • Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Crangon dalli Rathbun, 1902
  • Crangon franciscorum Stimpson, 1856
  • Crangon hakodatei Rathbun, 1902
  • Crangon handi Kuris & Carlton, 1977
  • Crangon holmesi Rathbun, 1902
  • Crangon lockingtonii Holmes, 1904
  • Crangon nigricauda Stimpson, 1856
  • Crangon nigromaculata Lockington, 1877
  • Crangon propinquus Stimpson, 1860
  • Crangon septemspinosa Say, 1818
  • Crangon uritai Hayashi & J. N. Kim, 1999

A further two species are known from the fossil record.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Joana Campos, Cláudia Moreira, Fabiana Freitas & Henk W. van der Veer (2012). "Short review of the eco-geography of Crangon". Journal of Crustacean Biology 32 (2): 159–169. doi:10.1163/193724011X615569.
  2. ↑ S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen (2011). "Carideorum Catalogus: the Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)". Zoologische Mededelingen 85 (9): 195–589, figs. 1–59. ISBN 978-90-6519-200-4.
  3. ↑ 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.