Crangonidae
Encyclopedia
The family
Crangonidae is a taxon of shrimp
s, of the superfamily
Crangonoidea
, including the commercially important species Crangon crangon
. Its type genus
is Crangon. Twenty-four genera are included in the family:
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Crangonidae is a taxon of shrimp
Shrimp
Shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important...
s, of the superfamily
Taxonomic rank
In biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...
Crangonoidea
Crangonoidea
Crangonoidea is a superfamily of shrimps containing the two families Crangonidae and Glyphocrangonidae....
, including the commercially important species Crangon crangon
Crangon crangon
Crangon crangon is a commercially important species of shrimp fished mainly in the southern North Sea, although also found in the Irish Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, as well as off much of Scandinavia and parts of Morocco's Atlantic coast...
. Its type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
is Crangon. Twenty-four genera are included in the family:
- Aegaeon Agassiz, 1846
- Argis Krøyer, 1842
- Crangon Fabricius, 1798
- Lissocrangon Kuris & Carlton, 1977
- Lissosabinea Christoffersen, 1988
- Mesocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
- Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965
- Morscrangon † Garassino & Jakobsen, 2005
- Neocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
- Notocrangon Coutière, 1900
- Paracrangon Dana, 1852a
- Parapontocaris Alcock, 1901
- Parapontophilus Christoffersen, 1988
- Philocheras Stebbing, 1900
- Placopsicrangon Komai & Chan, 2009
- Pontocaris Bate, 1888
- Pontophilus Leach, 1817
- Pseudopontophilus Komai, 2004
- Prionocrangon Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
- Rhynocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
- Sabinea J. C. Ross, 1835
- Sclerocrangon Sars, 1883
- Syncrangon Kim & Hayashi, 2003
- Vercoia Baker, 1904