Potamalpheops

Potamalpheops
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Alpheidae
Genus: Potamalpheops
Powell, 1979

Potamalpheops is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae. It was originally erected by Powell in 1979 to house species from Africa.[1] Later, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. realised that the troglobitic shrimp he had described in 1973 from Oaxaca, Mexico as Alpheopsis stygicola, also belonged to the genus,[1] and in 1991, A. J. Bruce described a new species from Australia, further expanding the genus' geographical range.[2] It is now thought to represent a relict taxon from the Tethys Sea.[2]

The following species are currently accepted as valid:[3]

  • Potamalpheops darwiniensis Bruce, 1993
  • Potamalpheops galle Anker, 2005
  • Potamalpheops hanleyi Bruce, 1991
  • Potamalpheops haugi (Coutière, 1906)
  • Potamalpheops johnsoni Anker, 2003
  • Potamalpheops miyai Yeo & Ng, 1997
  • Potamalpheops monodi Sollaud, 1932)
  • Potamalpheops palawensis Y. Cai & Anker, 2004
  • Potamalpheops pininsulae Bruce & Iliffe, 1992
  • Potamalpheops pylorus Powell, 1979
  • Potamalpheops tigger Yeo & Ng, 1997

References

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