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Hippolytidae

Wikipedia Abstract

Hippolytidae is a family of cleaner shrimp, also known as broken-back shrimp or anemone shrimp. The term "broken-back shrimp" also applies to the genus Hippolyte in particular and "cleaner shrimp" is sometimes applied exclusively to Lysmata amboinensis.
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Genus

Alcyonohippolyte (6)
Alope (2)
Caridion (2)
Chorismus (3)
Eumanningia (1)
Gelastocaris (2)
Gelastreutes (1)
Hippolyte (38)
Latreutes (Gulfweed shrimp) (19)
Leontocaris (9)
Merhippolyte (7)
Nauticaris (4)
Paralatreutes (1)
Phycocaris (1)
Saron (4)
Thorella (1)
Tozeuma (Arrow shrimp) (12)
Trachycaris (2)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0