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

Meningodora Smith, 1882

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Meningodora compsa (Chace, 1940)
Meningodora miccyla (Chace, 1940)
Meningodora mollis Smith, 1882
Meningodora vesca (Smith, 1886)

Literature

original description	Smith, S.I., 1882. Reports on the results of dredging under the supervisión of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 10(1): 1-108, plates 1-16.
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). Meningodora Smith, 1882. 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:107024