Biology:Spongicolidae

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Short description: Family of crustaceans

Spongicolidae
Spongicoloides sp.jpg
Spongicoloides
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Stenopodidea
Family: Spongicolidae
Schram, 1986

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]

Genera

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

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q4049954 entry