Potamalpheops | |
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Potamalpheops johnsoni | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Caridea |
Family: | Alpheidae |
Genus: |
Potamalpheops Powell, 1979 |
Potamalpheops is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae. It was originally erected by Powell in 1979 to house species from Africa. [1] Later, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. realised that the troglobitic shrimp he had described in 1973 from Oaxaca, Mexico as Alpheopsis stygicola, also belonged to the genus, [1] and in 1991, A. J. Bruce described a new species from Australia, further expanding the genus' geographical range. [2] It is now thought to represent a relict taxon from the Tethys Sea. [2]
The following species are currently accepted as valid: [3]
Potamalpheops | |
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Potamalpheops johnsoni | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Caridea |
Family: | Alpheidae |
Genus: |
Potamalpheops Powell, 1979 |
Potamalpheops is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae. It was originally erected by Powell in 1979 to house species from Africa. [1] Later, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. realised that the troglobitic shrimp he had described in 1973 from Oaxaca, Mexico as Alpheopsis stygicola, also belonged to the genus, [1] and in 1991, A. J. Bruce described a new species from Australia, further expanding the genus' geographical range. [2] It is now thought to represent a relict taxon from the Tethys Sea. [2]
The following species are currently accepted as valid: [3]