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Palaemonidae
Periclimenes pedersoni, a cleaner shrimp of the Pontoniinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Caridea
Superfamily:
Palaemonoidea
Family:
Palaemonidae

Subfamilies

Palaemonidae is a family of shrimp in the order Decapoda. Two subfamilies are distinguished: Palaemoninae and Pontoniinae. Palaemoninae are mainly carnivores that eat small invertebrates and can be found in any aquatic habitat except the deep sea. The most significant genus is Macrobrachium, which contains commercially fished species. Pontoniinae inhabit coral reefs, where they associate with certain invertebrates such as sponges, cnidarians,[1] mollusks and echinoderms as cleaner shrimps, parasites, or commensals. They generally feed on detritus, though some are carnivores and hunt tiny animals.

Genera

The family contains more than 950 species in 137 genera,[2][3] divided between the two subfamilies:[4][5]

Palaemoninae

Palaemoninae Rafinesque, 1815

Pontoniinae

Pontoniinae Kingsley, 1879

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Shane T. Ahyong, James K. Lowry, Miguel Alonso, Roger N. Bamber, Geoffrey A. Boxshall, Peter Castro, Sarah Gerken, Gordan S. Karaman, Joseph W. Goy, Diana S. Jones, Kenneth Meland, D. Christopher Rogers & Jörundur Svavarsson (2011). "Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772" (PDF). In Z.-Q. Zhang (ed.). Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Vol. 3148. pp. 165–191. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Sammy De Grave (2012). "Palaemoninae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
  5. ^ Charles Fransen & Sammy De Grave (2012). "Pontoniinae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
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