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 > Genus Palaemon

Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Palaemon*	Weber, 1795	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: karkaleci i qelqtë sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Bokmål (Norwegian): stripestrandreke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Catalan: gambeta sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Dutch: gewone steurgarnaal; gewone steurkrab sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;Annys, A. (1984). Verslag excursie naar Sas van Goes (Ned.) op 9 oktober 1983 [Report on the excursion to Sas van Goes (Netherlands), 9 October 1983]. De Strandvlo 4(1): 18-19

English: grass prawm sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

French: bouquet sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: kleine Felsengarnele

Greek: Γαριδάκι βράχων sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: stripestrandreke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: stripestrandreke sources: Mém. Acad. St. Pétersbourg, Div. sav., III, p. 370

Norwegian Nynorsk: stripet strandreke sources: Mém. Acad. St. Pétersbourg, Div. sav., III, p. 370

Nynorsk (Norwegian): stripet strandreke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: krewetka elegancka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: quisquilla sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Swedish: elegant tångräka

Literature

original description	Rathke, H., 1837. Zur Fauna der Krym.— Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg 3: 291-454, Plates 1-10.
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	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	Holthuis, L.B.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (1993). Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. Synopses of the British Fauna 15. Second Edition.
additional source	González-Ortegón, E.; Cuesta, J.A. (2006). An illustrated key to species of Palaemon and Palaemonetes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from European waters, including the alien species Palaemon macrodactylus. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 86(1): 93-102
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

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Genbank

Link to Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (29 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
GBIF

Citation

Fransen, C. (2014). Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837. 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:107614