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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Eucarida (Crabs, Crayfish, Shrimp, etc.) (Eucarida) » Crabs, Crayfishes, Lobsters, Prawns, and Shrimp (Decapoda) » Caridean shrimps (Caridea)

Infraorder Caridea - Caridean shrimps

Grass shrimp? - Palaemon Spot Prawn - Pandalus platyceros - Pandalus platyceros Lysmata californica (Stimpson, 1866) - Lysmata californica Shore Shrimp - Palaemon pugio Crangonidae Palaemon intermedius - female Genus species? Freshwater Caridea, probably Palaemonidae but could be Atyidae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)
Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
Superorder Eucarida (Eucarida (Crabs, Crayfish, Shrimp, etc.))
Order Decapoda (Crabs, Crayfishes, Lobsters, Prawns, and Shrimp)
Infraorder Caridea (Caridean shrimps)
Contributed by Ray Fisher on 1 December, 2012 - 9:46am

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