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

Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, 1881b

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthephyra brevirostris Smith, 1885
Acanthephyra curtirostris Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
Acanthephyra eximia Smith, 1884
Acanthephyra pelagica (Risso, 1816)
Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards, 1881
Acanthephyra stylorostratis (Spence Bate, 1888)
Acanthephyra tenuipes (Spence Bate, 1888)

Literature

original description	Milne-Edwards, A., 1881b. Description de quelques crustacés macroures provenant des grandes profondeurs de la Mer des Antilles.— Annales des Sciences Naturelles (6) 11: 1-15.
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
additional source	Crosnier, A., 1987b. Oplophoridae (Crustacea Decapoda) récoltés de 1971 à 1982 par les navires françaises dans l’océan Indien occidental sud.— Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (4) section A, Zoologie, Biologie et Écologie animales 9: 695-726.

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Citation

Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2014). Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, 1881b. 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:107018