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Periclimenaeus
Sign in to savePericlimenaeus is a genus of decapod crustaceans of the family Palaemonidae which is part of the infraorder Caridea. The genus was named by the English carcinologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile in 1915. He set out the distinguishing features of the genus as:
Species
カイメンカクレエビ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyPalaemonidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 385
- With media
- 157
- Family
- Palaemonidae
- Collections
- USNM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CAS
- Recorded in
- Curacao, Dominica, French Polynesia, United States, Philippines, Palau
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pontoniinae
- Image
- Periclimenaeus hecate (MNHN-IU-2014-20627).jpeg
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- Periclimenaeus
- taxon author citation
- Borradaile, 1915
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Periclimenaeus is a genus of decapod crustaceans of the family Palaemonidae which is part of the infraorder Caridea. The genus was named by the English carcinologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile in 1915. He set out the distinguishing features of the genus as:
Pericimaenaeus robustus is known only from the type specimen which was collected off Amirante Islands by the Western Indian Ocean Expeditions of Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner and described in 1915 and again in 1917 by Borradaile, it was re-described by Dr A.J. "Sandy" Bruce of the Queensland Museum in 2005.
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