Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Dendrobranchiata > Superfamily Penaeoidea > Family Benthesicymidae > Genus Benthesicymus

Benthesicymus iridescens Spence Bate, 1881

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Benthesicymus*	Spence Bate, 1881	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Benthesicymus longipes*	Bouvier, 1906	synonym

Literature

original description	Spence Bate, C., 1881. On the Penaeidae.— The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 8: 169-196, Plates 11-12.
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	Crosnier, A. (1985). Crevettes pénéides récoltées dans l'océan Indien lors des campagnes Benthedi, Safari I et II, MD 32/Réunion. Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. nat., Paris vol. 4, ser. 7 p. 839-877.
additional source	Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas
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	Pérez Farfante, I. & B. Kensley, 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera.— Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle 175: 1-233.

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Taxonomy

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External Links

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GBIF

Citation

Fransen, C. (2014). Benthesicymus iridescens Spence Bate, 1881. 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:107089