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

Palaemon Weber, 1795

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1837
Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837
Palaemon longirostris H. Milne Edwards, 1837 [in H. Milne Edwards, 1834-1840]
Palaemon macrodactylus Rathbun, 1902
Palaemon serratus (Pennant, 1777)
Palaemon varians Leach, 1813 [in Leach, 1813-1814]
Palaemon xiphias Risso, 1816

Literature

original description	Weber, F., 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum Entomologiam systematicum ill. Fabricii adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus: i-viii, 1-171. Chilonii et Hamburgii.
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	Holthuis, L.B.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (1993). Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. Synopses of the British Fauna 15. Second Edition.

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Citation

Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2014). Palaemon Weber, 1795. 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:107032