Metanephrops
Metanephrops Temporal range:
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Metanephrops japonicus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Family: | Nephropidae |
Genus: | Metanephrops Jenkins, 1972 |
Type species | |
Nephrops japonicus Tapparone-Canefri, 1873
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Species | |
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Metanephrops is a genus of lobsters, commonly known as scampi. Important species for fishery include Metanephrops australiensis (Australian scampi) and Metanephrops challengeri (New Zealand scampi). It differs from other lobsters such as Homarus and Nephrops norvegicus in that its two main claws are of equal size, rather than being differentiated into a crusher and a pincher.[1] There are 18 extant species recognised in the genus:[2]
- (Wood-Mason, 1891)
- (De Man, 1905)
- Chan & Yu, 1991
- Metanephrops australiensis (Bruce, 1966)
- Metanephrops binghami (Boone, 1927)
- Metanephrops boschmai (Holthuis, 1964)
- Metanephrops challengeri (Balss, 1914)
- Chan & Yu, 1987
- Metanephrops japonicus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1873)
- Metanephrops mozambicus Macpherson, 1990
- (Bruce, 1965)
- (Moreira, 1903)
- (Parisi, 1917)
- (De Man, 1916)
- (Bruce, 1966)
- (Hu, 1983)
- (Bate, 1888)
- Chan & Yu, 1991
A further three species are known from fossils:[3][4]
- Feldmann, 1989 – Late Cretaceous
- Jenkins, 1972 – Pliocene
- Feldmann et al., 1993 – Late Cretaceous
References[]
- ^ Lipke Holthuis (1991). FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. FAO.
- ^ Tin-Yam Chan (2010). "Metanephrops Jenkins, 1972". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 17, 2010.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- ^ Dale Tshudy, Tin-Yam Chan & Ulf Sorhannus (2007). "Morphology-based clasdistic analysis of Metanephrops: the most diverse extant genus of clawed lobster (Nephropidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 27 (3): 463–476. doi:10.1651/S-2777.1.
Categories:
- True lobsters
- Extant Late Cretaceous first appearances
- Decapoda stubs