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

Gnathophyllum americanum Guérin-Méneville, 1855 [in Guérin-Méneville, 1855-1856]

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gnathophyllum*	Latreille, 1819	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bumblebee shrimp

Literature

original description	Guérin-Méneville F.E. 1855-1856. Animales articulados con piés articulados. In: de la Sagra, R., Historia fisica politica y natural de la isla de Cuba. Segunda Parte. Historia Natural. Tomo VII (Crustaceos, Aragnides é Insectos) [1856]. Tomo VIII (Atlas de Zoologia) [1855]: i-xxxii, 1-371, Plates 1-20. Paris.
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	Sloan, N.A., A.M. Clark & J.D. Taylor (1979). The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Zool.) 37 (2): 81- 128.
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
GenBank (13 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Fransen, C. (2014). Gnathophyllum americanum Guérin-Méneville, 1855 [in Guérin-Méneville, 1855-1856]. 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:107607