Lepidophthalmus

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

↑ G. C. B. Poore (2010). "Lepidophthalmus Holmes, 1904". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
↑ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
↑ 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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