Callianassa (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Callianassa"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Thalassinidea
familia = Callianassidae
genus = "Callianassa"
genus_authority = Leach, 1814 [ITIS|taxon="Callianassa"|ID=98207]
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Callianassa" is a genus of mud shrimps, in the family Callianassidae. Three of the species in this genus ("C. candida", "C. tyrrhena" and "C. whitei") have been split off into a new genus, "Pestarella" cite journal |quotes=no |author=Nguyen Ngoc-Ho |year=2003 |title=European and Mediterranean Thalassinidea (Crustacea, Decapoda) |journal=Zoosystema |url=http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z03n3a5.pdf |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=439–555] .

Species

* "Callianassa articulata" Rathbun
* "Callianassa australiensis" Dana
* "Callianassa californiensis"
* "Callianassa filholi" (Milne-Edwards, 1878)
* "Callianassa japonica" Ortmann, 1891 — Japanese ghost shrimp
* "Callianassa kraussi" Stebbing, 1900 — pink ghost shrimp
* "Callianassa lanceolata"
* "Callianassa major"
* "Callianassa oahuensis"
* "Callianassa parva" Edmondson, 1944
* "Callianassa petalura" Stimpson, 1860 — flower ghost shrimp
* "Callianassa subterranea" (Montagu, 1808)
* "Callianassa turnerana" White, 1861 — Cameroon ghost shrimp
* "Callianassa variabilis"
* "Callianassa vigilax" de Man

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