Hippolytidae

Hippolytidae is a family of cleaner shrimp, also known as broken-back shrimp or anemone shrimp. The term "broken-back shrimp" also applies to the genus Hippolyte in particular and "cleaner shrimp" is sometimes applied exclusively to Lysmata amboinensis.

Hippolytidae
Lysmata amboinensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily: Alpheoidea
Family: Hippolytidae
Spence Bate, 1888

Taxonomy

Formerly, the circumscription of the family Hippolytidae included several additional taxa that have now been transferred to Bythocariidae, Lysmatidae, Merguiidae, and Thoridae.[1][2] As of June, 2023, there are 16 genera recognised in the family Hippolytidae sensu stricto:[3]

  • Alope White, 1847
  • Caridion Goës, 1864
  • Chorismus Spence Bate, 1888
  • Eumanningia Crosnier, 2000
  • Gelastocaris Kemp, 1914
  • Gelastreutes AJ Bruce, 1990
  • Hippolyte Leach, 1814
  • Latreutes Stimpson, 1860
  • Leontocaris Stebbing, 1905
  • Merhippolyte Spence Bate, 1888
  • Nauticaris Spence Bate, 1888
  • Phycocaris Kemp, 1916
  • Saron Thallwitz, 1891
  • Thorella Bruce, 1982
  • Tozeuma Stimpson, 1860
  • Trachycaris Calman, 1906

References
  1. Christoffersen, M.L., 1987. Phylogenetic relationships of hippolytid genera, with an assignment of new families for the Crangonoidea and Alpheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea). Cladistics 3: 348-362.
  2. De Grave, S, Li, C.P., Tsang L.M., Chu K.H., Chan T.-Y. (2014). Unweaving hippolytoid systematics (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hippolytidae): resurrection of several families. Zoologica Scripta, 43, 496–507.
  3. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Hippolytidae Spence Bate, 1888". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-06-19.


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