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Callianassa
Temporal range: 183.0–0 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Callianassidae
Subfamily: Callianassinae
Genus: Callianassa
Leach, 1814 [1]
Type species
Cancer (Astacus) subterraneus
Montagu, 1808
Synonyms[2]
  • Montagua Leach, 1814

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.

Species

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Six species are currently recognised in the genus Callianassa:[2]

Incertae sedis
  • Callianassa? anoploura Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa? chakratongae Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa? exilimaxilla Sakai, 2005
  • Callianassa? gruneri Sakai, 1999
  • Callianassa? nigroculata Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa? plantei Sakai, 2004
  • Callianassa? stenomastaxa Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa? propriopedis Sakai, 2002
  • Callianassa? tenuipes Sakai, 2002
Synonyms

Several species are known from the fossil record, including:

  • Callianassa elegans Bohm 1922 (Java)[5][6]
  • Callianassa moinensis Rathbun, 1919[7]

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