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

Thor amboinensis (de Man, 1888)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thor*	Kingsley, 1878a	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: squat anemone shrimp

Literature

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	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	Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
GBIF

Citation

De Grave, S.; Fransen, C. (2014). Thor amboinensis (de Man, 1888). 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:107534