Callianassa
Genus of crustaceans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about genus of Crustaceans. For Greek nereid, see Callianassa (mythology).
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,[3] while others such as Callianassa filholi have been moved to Biffarius.[4] The genus is named after the Nereid of the greco-roman mythology.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Callianassidae |
Subfamily: | Callianassinae |
Genus: | Callianassa Leach, 1814 [1] |
Synonyms [2] | |
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