Thoridae

Thoridae is a family of cleaner shrimp, also known as broken-back shrimp or anemone shrimp.

Thoridae
Eualus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily: Alpheoidea
Family: Thoridae
Kingsley, 1878
Genera

See text.

Genera

There are 36 recognised genera in the family:[1]

  • Eualus Thallwitz, 1892
  • Eumanningia Crosnier, 2000
  • Exhippolysmata Stebbing, 1915
  • Gelastocaris Kemp, 1914
  • Gelastreutes Bruce, 1990
  • Heptacarpus Holmes, 1900
  • Latreutes Stimpson, 1860
  • Lebbeus White, 1847
  • Leontocaris Stebbing, 1905
  • Lysmatella Borradaile, 1915
  • Merhippolyte Bate, 1888
  • Mimocaris Nobili, 1903
  • Nauticaris Bate, 1888
  • Paralatreutes Kemp, 1925
  • Paralebbeus Bruce & Chace, 1986
  • Phycocaris Kemp, 1916
  • Saron Thallwitz, 1891
  • Spirontocaris Bate, 1888
  • Thinora Bruce, 1998
  • Thor Kingsley, 1878
  • Thorella Bruce, 1982
  • Tozeuma Stimpson, 1860
  • Trachycaris Calman, 1906

Morphological and genetic studies show that Thoridae is distinct from Hippolytidae.[2][3]

References

  1. 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: 1โ€“109.
  2. Christoffersen, Martin L. (1987). "Phylogenetic Relationships of Hippolytid Genera, with an Assignment of New Families for the Crangonoidea and Alpheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea)". Cladistics. 3 (4): 348โ€“362. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1987.tb00898.x. PMID 34949061. S2CID 84060489.
  3. De Grave, Sammy; Li, Chi Pang; Tsang, Ling Ming; Chu, Ka Hou; Chan, Tin-Yam (2014). "Unweaving hippolytoid systematics (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hippolytidae): resurrection of several families". Zoologica Scripta. 43 (5): 496โ€“507. doi:10.1111/zsc.12067. S2CID 84753248.


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