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 xiphias Risso, 1816

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Palaemon*	Weber, 1795	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

English: posidonia prawn sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

French: bouquet des posidonies sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

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

Italian: gamberetto della posidonia sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Spanish, Castillian: camarón de la posidonia

Literature

original description	Risso, A., 1816. Histoire naturelle des crustacés des environs de Nice: 1-175, Plates 1-3. Librairie GrecqueLatine-Allemande, 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	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	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

GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Fransen, C. (2014). Palaemon xiphias Risso, 1816. 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:107617