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Hefriga

Hefriga is an extinct genus of shrimp in the order Decapoda. It lived in the Jurassic period.

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Hefriga
Temporal range:
Hefriga serrata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: †Hefriga
Münster, 18391
Type species
Hefriga serrata
Münster, 1839
Species2
  • Hefriga aonis (Bronn, 1858)
  • Hefriga complicatus (Münster, 1839)
  • Hefriga frischmanni Oppel, 1862
  • Hefriga norbertwinkleri Schweigert, 2011
  • Hefriga proboscideawulfi Schweigert & Garassino, 2004
  • Hefriga rogerfrattigianii Schweigert, 2011
  • Hefriga schlechtingerae Winkler, 2020
  • Hefriga serrata Münster, 1839 (type)
Synonyms2

Bombur Münster, 1839

Hefriga is an extinct genus of shrimp in the order Decapoda. It lived in the Jurassic period.34

References

References

  1. Münster, G. Graf zu (1839). "Decapoda Macroura. Abbildung und Beschreibung der fossilen langschwänzigen Krebse in den Kalkschiefern von Bayern". Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde. Vol. 2. pp. 1–88.
  2. "Hefriga Münster, 1839 †". DecaNet. World Register of Marine Species. 2026. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
  3. Günter Schweigert; Alessandro Garassino (2004). "New genera and species of shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata, Caridea) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of S Germany" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Ser. B. 350: 33 pp.
  4. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.