Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Bresilioidea > Family Alvinocarididae

Mirocaris Vereshchaka, 1997b

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Mirocaris fortunata (Martin & Christiansen, 1995)

Literature

original description	Vereshchaka, A.L., 1997b. A new family for a deep-sea caridean shrimp from North Atlantic hydrothermal vents.— Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 77: 425-438.
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.
additional source	Nomenclator Zoologicus

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Citation

Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2014). Mirocaris Vereshchaka, 1997b. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107000