Syncaris

Syncaris is a genus of shrimp, containing only two species: the endangered California freshwater shrimp, Syncaris pacifica, and the extinct Pasadena freshwater shrimp, Syncaris pasadenae.[1] This genus is one of only two genera of freshwater Atyid shrimp found in North America, with the other being the genus Palaemonias, which contains two endangered, cave-dwelling shrimp species.[2] The genus Syncaris may have arisen during the Mesozoic, with the family Atyidae likely being of Jurassic origin.[1][2]

Syncaris
Syncaris pacifica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Family:
Atyidae
Genus:
Syncaris

Holmes, 1900
Species

Syncaris pacifica
Syncaris pasadenae

References
  1. Joel W. Martin & Mary K. Wicksten (2004). "Review and redescription of the freshwater atyid shrimp genus Syncaris Holmes, 1900, in California". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 24 (3): 447–462. doi:10.1651/C-2451. JSTOR 1549592.
  2. Hedgpeth, Joel W. (1968). "The Atyid Shrimp of the Genus Syncaris in California". Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie (in German). 53 (4): 511–524. doi:10.1002/iroh.19680530402.


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