Crangon
Genus of crustaceans
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| Crangon | |
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| Crangon crangon | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Crangonidae |
| Genus: | Crangon Fabricius, 1798 [non Weber, 1795] |
| Type species | |
| Crangon crangon Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Distribution
Crangon species are found exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere, with most of the species occurring in the northern Pacific Ocean.[1] C. septemspinosa is the only species in the genus to occur in the north-western Atlantic Ocean, while in the north-eastern Atlantic, C. crangon and C. allmani occur.[1] With the exception of the important commercial species C. crangon, however, the distributions of Crangon species are poorly characterised.[1] The greater number of species in the Pacific Ocean is thought to indicate that the genus originated in the Pacific.[1]
Species
Crangon contains the following extant species:[2][3]
- Crangon affinis De Haan, 1849
- Crangon alaskensis Lockington, 1877
- Crangon alba Holmes, 1900
- Crangon allmani Kinahan, 1860
- Crangon amurensis Bražnikov, 1907
- Crangon capensis Stimpson, 1860
- Crangon cassiope De Man, 1906
- Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Crangon dalli Rathbun, 1902
- Crangon franciscorum Stimpson, 1856
- Crangon hakodatei Rathbun, 1902
- Crangon handi Kuris & Carlton, 1977
- Crangon holmesi Rathbun, 1902
- Crangon lockingtonii Holmes, 1904
- †Crangon miocenicus (Garassino & Teruzzi, 1996)
- Crangon nigricauda Stimpson, 1856
- Crangon nigromaculata Lockington, 1877
- Crangon propinquus Stimpson, 1860
- Crangon septemspinosa Say, 1818
- Crangon uritai Hayashi & J. N. Kim, 1999
A further two species are known from the fossil record.[4]
