Metacrangon

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
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Caridea
Superfamilia: Crangonoidea

Familia: Crangonidae
Genus: Metacrangon
Species:
jacqueti Species Group

Species: (4):
M. bythos – M. ochotensis – M. punctata – M. similis
munita Species Group

Species: (17):
M. asiaticus – M. clevai – M. cornuta – M. holthuisi – M. karubar – M. laevis – M. longirostris – M. miyakei – M. monodon – M. nipponensis – M. obliqua – M. proxima – M. robusta – M. sinensis – M. trigonorostris – M. tropis – M. tsugaruensis –

M. australis – M. haona – M. hikurangi – M. kaiko – M. knoxi – M. poorei – M. rau – M. richardsoni – M. ryukyu – M. spinidorsalis – M. teina
Name

Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965
References
Primary references

Zarenkov, N.A. 1965. Revision of the genera Crangon Fabricius and Sclerocrangon G.O. Sars (Decapoda, Crustacea) [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 44(12): 1761–1775. Translated from Russian by Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Translation Series No. 1465. PDF. Reference page.

Additional references

Komai, T. 2012: A review of the western Pacific species of the crangonid genus Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965 (Decapoda: Caridea), with descriptions of seven new species. Zootaxa 3468: 1–77. Preview Reference page.
Komai, T.; Ahyong, S. 2011: The crangonid shrimp genus Metacrangon (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from New Zealand, with descriptions of four new species. Journal of natural history, 45: 77–111. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2010.520823. Full article: [1].
Komai, T., Chen, C. & Watanabe, H.K. 2018. Two new species of the crangonid genus Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Okinawa Trough, Japan. Zootaxa 4410(1): 97–112. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.1.5 Reference page.
Komai, T.; Taylor, J. 2010: Three new species of the crangonid genus Metacrangon Zarenkov (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 67: 45–60.
Webber, W.R. et al. 2010: [Chapter] EIGHT Phylum ARTHROPODA SUBPHYLUM CRUSTACEA shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. Pp. 98-232 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.): New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725793-3

Metacrangon is a genus of shrimp belonging to the family Crangonidae.[1]

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[1]
Species

Species:[1]

Metacrangon acclivis (Rathbun, 1902)
Metacrangon agassizii (Smith, 1882)
Metacrangon asiaticus (Kobjakova, 1955)

References

"Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 May 2021.