Aristeidae

Aristeidae is a family of Dendrobranchiata decapod crustaceans known as deep-sea shrimps, gamba prawns or gamba shrimps. Some species are subject to commercial fisheries.[2]

Aristeidae
Aristeus antennatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Superfamily: Penaeoidea
Family: Aristeidae
Wood-Mason, 1891
Type genus
Aristeus

Genera

The following genera are classified under the Aristeidae:[1]

  • Aristaeomorpha Wood-Mason, 1891
  • Aristaeopsis Wood-Mason, 1891
  • Aristeus Duvernoy, 1840
  • Austropenaeus Pérez Farfante & Kensley, 1997
  • Cerataspis Gray, 1828
  • Hemipenaeus Spence Bate, 1881
  • Hepomadus Spence Bate, 1881
  • Parahepomadus Crosnier, 1978
  • Pseudaristeus Crosnier, 1978

References

  1. Sammy De Grave (2010). "Aristeidae Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  2. Paulo Ricardo Pezzuto; José Angel Alvarez Perez & Roberto Wahrlich (2006). "Deep-sea shrimps (Decapoda: Aristeidae): new targets of the deep-water trawling fishery in Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Oceanography. 54 (2–3): 123–134. doi:10.1590/S1679-87592006000200003.


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