Trachysalambria

Trachysalambria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Penaeidae
Genus: Trachysalambria
Burkenroad, 1934
Type species
Trachysalambria curvirostris
(Stimpson, 1860)

Trachysalambria is a genus of prawns, containing ten species. It was erected in 1934 by Martin Burkenroad, as a subgenus of Trachypenaeus, with T. curvirostris as its type species. That subgenus was elevated to the rank of genus in 1997 by Isabel Pérez Farfante and Brian Kensley.[1] The ten species are:[2][3]

References

  1. S. Shinomiya and K. Sakai (2006). "Three new species of the genus Megokris (Decapoda, Penaeidae) from Hall's and Motoh's collections". Crustaceana 79 (10): 1251–1268. doi:10.1163/156854006778859579. JSTOR 20107756.
  2. Charles Fransen & Michael Türkay (2012). "Trachysalambria". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  3. 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.