Parhippolyte

Parhippolyte is a genus of cave dwelling decapod crustaceans, known as cave shrimps from the family Barbouriidae The type species Parhipplyte uvea was described in 1900 by the English carcinologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile from specimens collected in the south western Pacific by Arthur Willey. As their vernacular name of cave shrimp suggests these species are generally found in marine caves as well as anchialine ponds and lagoons.[3][4]

Parhippolyte
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Barbouriidae
Genus: Parhippolyte
Borradaile, 1900 [1]
Type species
Parhippolyte uveae
Borradaile, 1900[2]
Synonyms[1]
  • Somersiella C.W.J. Hart & Manning, 1981
  • Koror J. Clark, 1989

Species

There are currently 5 species recognised:[1]

References

  1. C. Fransen; S. De Grave (2011). "Parhippolyte Borradaile, 1915". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  2. L.A. Borradaile (1900). "On the Stomatopoda and Macrura brought by Dr. Willey from the South Seas". In Arthur Willey (ed.). Zoological results based on material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere, collected during the years 1895, 1896, and 1897. Cambridge University Press. pp. 395–428.
  3. Mary J. Wicksten (1996). "Parhippolyte cavernicola, new species (Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from the tropical eastern Pacific, with taxonomic remarks on the genera Somersiella and Koror". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 16 (1): 201–207. JSTOR 1548941.
  4. C.H.J.M. Fransen; T. Tomascik (1996). "Parhippolyte uveae Borradaile, 1899 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippolytidae) from Kakaban Island, Indonesia". Zoologische Mededelingen. Leiden. 70 (15): 227–233.
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