Ancylomenes

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Ancylomenes
Pederson's Shrimp.jpg
Ancylomenes pedersoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Caridea
Family:
Palaemonidae
Subfamily:
Genus:
Ancylomenes

Okuno & Bruce, 2010
Type species
Periclimenes venustus
Bruce, 1990

Ancylomenes is a genus of shrimp, erected in 2010 to accommodate the group of species around "Periclimenes aesopius" (now ).[1] Members of the genus are widely distributed in the warm oceans of the world, and live in association with cnidarians;[2] most are cleaner shrimp.[1]

The genus Ancylomenes contains the following species:[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b J. Okuno & A. J. Bruce (2010). "Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the 'Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species" (PDF). In S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen (ed.). Contributions to shrimp taxonomy. Zootaxa. Vol. 2372. pp. 85–105, 1–414. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11. ISBN 978-1-86977-457-8.
  2. ^ Bos AR, Hoeksema BW (2015). "Cryptobenthic fishes and co-inhabiting shrimps associated with the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis (Fungiidae) in the Davao Gulf, Philippines". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 98 (6): 1479–1489. doi:10.1007/s10641-014-0374-0. S2CID 14834695.
  3. ^ Charles Fransen & Sammy De Grave (2012). "Ancylomenes Okuno & Bruce, 2010". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 1, 2012.

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