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Cuapetes

Cuapetes is a genus of shrimp in the family Palaemonidae, first described by Austin Hobart Clark in 1919. WoRMS accepts the following species:

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Cuapetes
Cuapetes kororensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Palaemonidae
Genus: Cuapetes
Clark, 1919
Synonyms 1
  • Falciger Borradaile, 1915
  • Kemponia Bruce, 2004

Cuapetes is a genus of shrimp in the family Palaemonidae, first described by Austin Hobart Clark in 1919.12 WoRMS accepts the following species:1

  • Cuapetes agag (Kemp, 1922)
  • Cuapetes akiensis (Kubo, 1936)
  • Cuapetes americanus (Kingsley, 1878)
  • Cuapetes amymone (De Man, 1902)
  • Cuapetes anacanthus (Bruce, 1988)
  • Cuapetes andamanensis (Kemp, 1922)
  • Cuapetes calmani (Tattersall, 1921)
  • Cuapetes darwiniensis (Bruce, 1987)
  • Cuapetes demani (Kemp, 1915)
  • Cuapetes edwardsii (Paul'son, 1875)
  • Cuapetes elegans (Paul'son, 1875)
  • Cuapetes ensifrons (Dana, 1852)
  • Cuapetes grandis (Stimpson, 1860)
  • Cuapetes johnsoni (Bruce, 1987)
  • Cuapetes kororensis (Bruce, 1977)
  • Cuapetes lacertae (Bruce, 1992)
  • Cuapetes lanceolatus Okuno & Chan, 2012
  • Cuapetes longirostris (Borradaile, 1915)
  • Cuapetes nilandensis (Borradaile, 1915)
  • Cuapetes paulsoni (Bruce, 2003)
  • Cuapetes platycheles (Holthuis, 1952)
  • Cuapetes rapanui (Fransen, 1987)
  • Cuapetes seychellensis (Borradaile, 1915)
  • Cuapetes suvadivensis (Borradaile, 1915)
  • Cuapetes takedai Okuno, 2012
  • Cuapetes tenuipes (Borradaile, 1898)
  • Cuapetes uncinatus Bruce, 2012
  • Cuapetes ungujaensis (Bruce, 1969)
  • Cuapetes yapiensis Bruce, 2013
References

References

  1. Charles Fransen & Sammy De Grave (2015). "Cuapetes Clark, 1919". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  2. Clark, A. H. (1919). Some necessary changes in crustacean nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 32.