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Palaemon Weber, 1795
Taxonomic Serial No.: 96449

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Palaemonetes Heller, 1869
		Exopalaemon Holthuis, 1950
		Coutierella Sollaud, 1914
	Common Name(s):

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2022

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Protostomia
	Superphylum	Ecdysozoa
	Phylum	Arthropoda – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods
	Subphylum	Crustacea Brünnich, 1772 – crustacés, crustáceo, crustaceans
	Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802
	Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892
	Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904 – camarão, caranguejo, ermitão, lagosta, siri
	Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 – crabs, crayfishes, lobsters, prawns, shrimp, crabes, crevettes, écrevisses, homards
	Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963
	Infraorder	Caridea Dana, 1852
	Superfamily	Palaemonoidea Rafinesque, 1815
	Family	Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815
	Genus	Palaemon Weber, 1795
		Direct Children:
	Species	Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1837 – Baltic prawn
	Species	Palaemon affinis H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
	Species	Palaemon africanus (Balss, 1916)
	Species	Palaemon annandalei (Kemp, 1917) – Cipango prawn
	Species	Palaemon antennarius H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
	Species	Palaemon antrorum (J. E. Benedict, 1896) – Balcones cave shrimp
	Species	Palaemon argentinus (Nobili, 1901)
	Species	Palaemon atrinubes (Bray, 1976)
	Species	Palaemon audouini Heller, 1861
	Species	Palaemon australis (Dakin, 1915)
	Species	Palaemon camranhi (Nguyên, 1997)
	Species	Palaemon capensis (De Man in Weber, 1897)
	Species	Palaemon carinicauda Holthuis, 1950 – ridgetail prawn
	Species	Palaemon carteri (Gordon, 1935)
	Species	Palaemon colossus Tzomos & Koukouras, 2015
	Species	Palaemon concinnus Dana, 1852 – mangrove prawn
	Species	Palaemon cummingi (Chace, 1954) – Squirrel Chimney Cave shrimp, Florida cave shrimp
	Species	Palaemon curvirostris Nguyên, 1992
	Species	Palaemon debilis Dana, 1852 – feeble shrimp, 'opae huna
	Species	Palaemon dolospinus Walker & Poore, 2003
	Species	Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837 – rockpool prawn
	Species	Palaemon floridanus Chace, 1942 – Florida grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon fluvialis Streets, 1871
	Species	Palaemon gladiator Holthuis, 1950
	Species	Palaemon gracilis (S. I. Smith, 1871)
	Species	Palaemon gravieri (Yü, 1930) – Chinese ditch prawn
	Species	Palaemon guangdongensis Liu, Liang & Yan, 1990
	Species	Palaemon hainanensis (Liang, 2000)
	Species	Palaemon hancocki Holthuis, 1950
	Species	Palaemon hiltoni (Schmitt, 1921) – Hilton shrimp
	Species	Palaemon hobbsi (Strenth, 1994)
	Species	Palaemon intermedius (Stimpson, 1860) – striped river prawn
	Species	Palaemon ivonicus (Holthuis, 1950)
	Species	Palaemon kadiakensis (M. J. Rathbun, 1902) – Mississippi grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon khori De Grave & Al-Maslamani, 2006
	Species	Palaemon kwangtung De Grave & Ashelby, 2013
	Species	Palaemon lindsayi (Villalobos Figueroa & H. H. Hobbs Jr., 1974)
	Species	Palaemon litoreus (McCulloch, 1909)
	Species	Palaemon longirostris H. Milne-Edwards, 1837 – delta prawn
	Species	Palaemon macrodactylus M. J. Rathbun, 1902 – migrant prawn, oriental shrimp
	Species	Palaemon maculatus (Thallwitz, 1892) – Zaire prawn
	Species	Palaemon mani (Sollaud, 1914) – mam tom prawn
	Species	Palaemon mercedae (Pereira S., 1986)
	Species	Palaemon mesogenitor (Sollaud, 1912)
	Species	Palaemon mesopotamicus (Pesta, 1913)
	Species	Palaemon mexicanus (Strenth, 1976)
	Species	Palaemon migratorius (Heller, 1862)
	Species	Palaemon minos Tzomos & Koukouras, 2015
	Species	Palaemon miyadii (Kubo, 1938)
	Species	Palaemon modestus (Heller, 1862) – Siberian prawn
	Species	Palaemon mundusnovus De Grave & Ashelby, 2013
	Species	Palaemon northropi (Rankin, 1898) – Caribbean bait prawn, crossbanded grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon octaviae (Chace, 1972)
	Species	Palaemon ogasawaraensis Kato & Takeda, 1981
	Species	Palaemon orientis Holthuis, 1950 – oriental prawn
	Species	Palaemon ortmanni M. J. Rathbun, 1902 – gladiator prawn
	Species	Palaemon pacificus (Stimpson, 1860) – Indian bait prawn, Pacific grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon paivai Fausto Filho, 1967
	Species	Palaemon paludosus (Gibbes, 1850) – Eastern grass shrimp, riverine grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon pandaliformis (Stimpson, 1871) – American grass shrimp, potitinga prawn
	Species	Palaemon paucidens De Haan, 1844 – lake prawn
	Species	Palaemon peringueyi (Stebbing, 1915)
	Species	Palaemon peruanus Holthuis, 1950
	Species	Palaemon powelli Ashelby & De Grave, 2009
	Species	Palaemon pugio (Holthuis, 1949) – daggerblade grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon ritteri Holmes, 1895 – barred grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon schmitti (Holthuis, 1950)
	Species	Palaemon semmelinkii (De Man, 1881)
	Species	Palaemon septemtrionalis Katogi et al., 2019
	Species	Palaemon serenus (Heller, 1862)
	Species	Palaemon serratus (Pennant, 1777) – common prawn
	Species	Palaemon serrifer (Stimpson, 1860) – carpenter prawn
	Species	Palaemon sewelli (Kemp, 1925)
	Species	Palaemon sinensis (Sollaud, 1911) – Chinese grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon styliferus H. Milne-Edwards, 1840 – roshma prawn
	Species	Palaemon suttkusi (Smalley, 1964)
	Species	Palaemon tenuidactylus Liu, Liang & Yan, 1990
	Species	Palaemon texanus (Strenth, 1976) – Texas river shrimp
	Species	Palaemon tonkinensis (Sollaud, 1914) – Tonkin grass shrimp
	Species	Palaemon turcorum (Holthuis, 1961)
	Species	Palaemon varians Leach, 1813 – Atlantic ditch shrimp
	Species	Palaemon vicinus Ashelby, 2009
	Species	Palaemon vietnamicus (Nguyên, 1992)
	Species	Palaemon vulgaris Say, 1818 – common grass shrimp, marsh grass shrimp, marsh shrimp, common American prawn
	Species	Palaemon xinjiangensis (Liang, 2000)
	Species	Palaemon xiphias Risso, 1816 – Posidonia prawn
	Species	Palaemon yamashitai Fujino & Miyake, 1970
	Species	Palaemon yuna Carvalho, Magalhães & Mantelatto, 2014
	Species	Palaemon zariquieyi (Sollaud, 1938)

References


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	Other Source(s):
	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Palaemon

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Chace, Fenner A., Jr., and A. J. Bruce
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:	The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907-1910, pt. 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 543
	Page(s):	vii + 152
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
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	Reference for:	Palaemon

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	De Grave, Sammy, and C. H. J. M. Fransen
	Publication Date:	2011
	Article/Chapter Title:	Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the Dendrobranchiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Zoologische Mededelingen, vol. 85, no. 9
	Page(s):	195-589
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	ISBN/ISSN:	978-90-6519-2004, 0024-0672
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Palaemon

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	De Grave, Sammy, and Christopher W. Ashelby
	Publication Date:	2013
	Article/Chapter Title:	A re-appraisal of the systematic status of selected genera in Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Zootaxa, vol. 3734, no. 3
	Page(s):	331-344
	Publisher:
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	ISBN/ISSN:	1175-5334
	Notes:	doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.3.3
	Reference for:	Palaemon

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