Lepidophthalmus

Lepidophthalmus
Lepidophthalmus turneranus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Callianassidae
Subfamily:	Callichirinae
Genus:	Lepidophthalmus Holmes, 1904
Type species
Lepidophthalmus eiseni Holmes, 1904

Lepidophthalmus is a genus of ghost shrimp, containing the following species:^[1]

• Lepidophthalmus bocourti (A. Milne-Edwards, 1870)
• Lepidophthalmus eiseni Holmes, 1904
• Lepidophthalmus grandidieri (Coutière, 1899)
• Lepidophthalmus jamaicense (Schmitt, 1935)
• Lepidophthalmus louisianensis (Schmitt, 1935)
• Lepidophthalmus manningi Feder & Staton, 2000
• Lepidophthalmus rafai Felder & Manning, 1998
• Lepidophthalmus richardi Felder & Manning, 1997
• Lepidophthalmus rosae (Nobili, 1904)
• Lepidophthalmus sinuensis Lemaitre & Rodrigues, 1991
• Lepidophthalmus siriboia Felder & Rodrigues, 1993
• Lepidophthalmus socotrensis Sakai & Apel, 2002
• Lepidophthalmus tridentatus (Von Martens, 1868)
• Lepidophthalmus turneranus (White, 1861)

Only one species is known from the fossil record:^[2] Remains attributable to the extant species Lepidophthalmus jamaicense have been found in Upper Pleistocene deposits at Port Morant Harbour in the parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica.^[3]

References

1. G. C. B. Poore (2010). "Lepidophthalmus Holmes, 1904". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
2. 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.
3. J. S. H. Collins, S. K. Donovan & T. A. Stemann (2009). "Fossil Crustacea of the Late Pleistocene Port Morant Formation, west Port Morant Harbour, southeastern Jamaica". Scripta Geologica 138: 23–53.