Crangon
| Crangon | |
|---|---|
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| Crangon crangon | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Family: | Crangonidae |
| Genus: | Crangon Fabricius, 1798 [non Weber, 1795] |
| Type species | |
| Cancer Crangon Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Distribution
Crangon species are found exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere, with most of the species occurring in the northern Pacific Ocean.[1] C. septemspinosa is the only species in the genus to occur in the north-western Atlantic Ocean, while in the north-eastern Atlantic, C. crangon and C. allmani occur.[1] With the exception of the important commercial species C. crangon, however, the distributions of Crangon species are poorly characterised.[1] The greater number of species in the Pacific Ocean is thought to indicate that the genus originated in the Pacific.[1]
Species
Crangon contains the following extant species:[2]
- Crangon affinis De Haan, 1849
- Crangon alaskensis Lockington, 1877
- Crangon alba Holmes, 1900
- Crangon allmani Kinahan, 1860
- Crangon amurensis Bražnikov, 1907
- Crangon capensis Stimpson, 1860
- Crangon cassiope De Man, 1906
- Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Crangon dalli Rathbun, 1902
- Crangon franciscorum Stimpson, 1856
- Crangon hakodatei Rathbun, 1902
- Crangon handi Kuris & Carlton, 1977
- Crangon holmesi Rathbun, 1902
- Crangon lockingtonii Holmes, 1904
- Crangon nigricauda Stimpson, 1856
- Crangon nigromaculata Lockington, 1877
- Crangon propinquus Stimpson, 1860
- Crangon septemspinosa Say, 1818
- Crangon uritai Hayashi & J. N. Kim, 1999
A further two species are known from the fossil record.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Joana Campos, Cláudia Moreira, Fabiana Freitas & Henk W. van der Veer (2012). "Short review of the eco-geography of Crangon". Journal of Crustacean Biology 32 (2): 159–169. doi:10.1163/193724011X615569.
- ↑ S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen (2011). "Carideorum Catalogus: the Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)". Zoologische Mededelingen 85 (9): 195–589, figs. 1–59. ISBN 978-90-6519-200-4.
- ↑ 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.
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