Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Palaemonoidea > Family Palaemonidae > Genus Periclimenes

Periclimenes amethysteus (Risso, 1827)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

PericlimenesO.G. Costa, 1844accepted genus name
Anchistia Dana, 1852 synonym
Dennisia Norman, 1861 synonym
Periclimenes (Periclimenes) O.G. Costa, 1844 synonym

Species group names

Alpheus amethystea Risso, 1827 synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Catalan: gamba comensal sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 English: shrimp retainer sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 French: crevette améthyste; crevette rose un convive sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 German: Garnele Gefolgsmann sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 Italian: gamberetto dell'attinia
 Spanish, Castillian: gamba comensal

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

De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589.

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Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Periclimenes amethysteus (Risso, 1827). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107627

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2022-06-17 by Sammy De Grave

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