Crangonidae
Sign in to saveCrangonidae is a family of shrimp, of the superfamily Crangonoidea, including the commercially important species Crangon crangon. Its type genus is Crangon. Crangonid shrimps' first pair of pereiopods have partially chelate claws that they use to capture their prey. They burrow shallowly into sediment on the sea floor, and feed on bivalves, crustaceans, polychaetes, and some small fish.
Species
crangonid shrimp
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyCrangonidae
Habitatmarine, brackish
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Research
90 papers- New records of the family Crangonidae (Decapoda: Caridea) from Southwestern Atlantic.Zootaxa · 2018
- New record and a new species of Lissosabinea Christoffersen, 1988 (Decapoda: Caridea: Crangonidae) from Brazil.Zootaxa · 2022
- Crangonidae and Glyphocrangonidae (Decapoda; Caridea) of the Southern Gulf of Mexico.Zootaxa · 2013
- Influence of temperature on growth and reproduction of keystone species, Crangon hakodatei (Caridea, Crangonidae) in the East Sea of Korea.Marine pollution bulletin · 2025
- Large genomes among caridean shrimp.Genome · 2008
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Crangonidae is a family of shrimp, of the superfamily Crangonoidea, including the commercially important species Crangon crangon. Its type genus is Crangon. Crangonid shrimps' first pair of pereiopods have partially chelate claws that they use to capture their prey. They burrow shallowly into sediment on the sea floor, and feed on bivalves, crustaceans, polychaetes, and some small fish.
Two fossil species are known: Crangon miocenicus, discovered in 2001 in the early Miocene of the north Caucasus in Russia, and Morscrangon acutus, discovered in 2006 in the fur formation (early Eocene) in Denmark.