Alima

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Hoplocarida
Ordo: Stomatopoda
Subordo: Unipeltata
Superfamilia: Squilloidea

Familia: Squillidae
Genus: Alima
Species (): A. neptuni – ...
[source: WoRMS]
Name

Alima Leach, 1816

Primary references

Leach 1816: Journ. de Physique, 86, 305.

References

Feller, K.D. et al. 2013: Morphological and molecular description of the late-stage larvae of Alima Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) from Lizard Island, Australia. Zootaxa 3722(1): 22–32. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3722.1.2 Reference page.
Low, M.E.Y. & Ahyong, S.T. 2017. Cancer neptuni Linnaeus, 1768 (now Alima neptuni): original description, authorship and date of publication (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae). Zootaxa 4319(2): 373–374. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.7. Reference page.

Alima is a genus of shrimps belonging to the family Squillidae,[1] and was first described in 1817 by William Elford Leach.[1][2]

Leach describes the genus as

"Thorax elongate with the sides not approximating. Mouth placed towards the hinder part of the thorax."

Species

Species accepted by the World Register of Marine Species are:[1]

Alima hieroglyphica (Kemp, 1911)
Alima hildebrandi (Schmitt, 1940)
Alima maxima Ahyong, 2002
Alima neptuni (Linnaeus, 1768)
Alima orientalis Manning, 1978
Alima pacifica Ahyong, 2001

References

"WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Alima Leach, 1817". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
William Elford Leach (1817). "A general notice of the animals taken by Mr. John Cranch, during the expedition to explore the source of the River Zaire. Appendix IV". Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire in South Africa in 1816: 416. Wikidata Q116961550.