Spongicolidae

Family of crustaceans

Spongicolidae
Spongicoloides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Stenopodidea
Family: Spongicolidae
Schram, 1986

Spongicolidae is a family of glass sponge shrimps in the order Decapoda. There are about 8 genera and more than 40 described species in Spongicolidae.[1][2]

Genera

These eight genera belong to the family Spongicolidae:

  • Engystenopus Alcock & Anderson, 1894
  • Globospongicola Komai & Saito, 2006
  • Microprosthema Stimpson, 1860
  • Paraspongicola de Saint Laurent & Cleva, 1981
  • Spongicola de Haan, 1844
  • Spongicoloides Hansen, 1908
  • Spongiocaris Bruce & Baba, 1973
  • Jilinicaris Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000

References

  1. ^ "Spongicolidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. ^ "Spongicolidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-10-16.

Further reading

  • Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). "Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 96–157. ISSN 0006-324X.
  • Scholtz, Gerhard; Richter, Stefan (1995). "Phylogenetic systematics of the reptantian Decapoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113 (3): 289–328. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00936.x.
  • Stebbing, Thomas Roscoe Rede (1893). A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca. D. Appleton.
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Subgroups of Order Decapoda
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Class: Malacostraca
  • Subclass: Eumalacostraca
  • Superorder: Eucarida
Dendrobranchiata
  • Penaeoidea
  • Sergestoidea
Dendrobranchiata (prawns)

Stenopodidea (boxer shrimp) Caridea (true shrimp) Achelata (spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters) Astacidea (lobsters, crayfish) Anomura (hermit crabs and others)

Brachyura (crabs)
Pleocyemata
Stenopodidea
Procarididea
Caridea
Reptantia
Achelata
Polychelida
Glypheidea
Astacidea
Axiidea
Gebiidea
Anomura
Brachyura
    • see Brachyura
Taxon identifiers
Spongicolidae


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