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Potamalpheops

Potamalpheops
Potamalpheops johnsoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Alpheidae
Genus: Potamalpheops
Powell, 1979

Potamalpheops is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae. It was originally erected by Powell in 1979 to house species from Africa.[1] Later, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. realised that the troglobitic shrimp he had described in 1973 from Oaxaca, Mexico as Alpheopsis stygicola, also belonged to the genus,[1] and in 1991, A. J. Bruce described a new species from Australia, further expanding the genus' geographical range.[2] It is now thought to represent a relict taxon from the Tethys Sea.[2]

The following species are currently accepted as valid:[3]

  1. ^ a b Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (1983). "The African shrimp genus Potamalpheops in Mexico (Decapoda, Alpheidae)". Crustaceana. 44 (2): 221–224. doi:10.1163/156854083x00848. JSTOR 20103823.
  2. ^ a b A. J. Bruce (1991). "The "African" shrimp genus Potamalpheops in Australia, with the description of P. hanleyi, new species (Decapoda: Alpheidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 11 (4): 629–638. doi:10.2307/1548531. JSTOR 1548531.
  3. ^ de Mazancourt, Valentin (2022). "Potamalpheops Powell, 1979". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2023-06-18.

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