Spongicolidae

Summary

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]

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

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 edit

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

Further reading edit

  • 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.