Crangonidae

Crangonidae
Temporal range: Early Eocene–Recent
Crangon crangon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily: Crangonoidea
Family: Crangonidae
Haworth, 1825
Genera

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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.[1]

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.[2]

Twenty-four genera are included in the family:[3]

References

  1. ^ Jensen, Gregory C. (2011). "Feeding Behavior of the Horned Shrimp, Paracrangon echinata (Caridea: Crangonidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 31 (2): 246–248. doi:10.1651/10-3390.1.
  2. ^ Garassino, A.; Jakobsen, S. L. (2005). "Morscrangon acutus n. gen. n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the Fur Formation (Early Eocene) of the Islands of Mors and Fur (Denmark)". S2CID 88807516. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.


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