Animalia > Arthropoda > Malacostraca > Decapoda > Hippolytidae

Hippolytidae with Relationships

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.
View Wikipedia Record: Hippolytidae

Genus

Caridion (1)
Chorismus (1)
Hippolyte (6)
Latreutes (Gulfweed shrimp) (4)
Merhippolyte (1)
Nauticaris (1)
Saron (1)
Tozeuma (Arrow shrimp) (2)
Trachycaris (1)

(...) = Species count

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