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Nephropsis

Nephropsis is a genus of lobsters containing 18 extant species:

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Nephropsis
Nephropsis rosea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Nephropidae
Genus: Nephropsis
Wood-Mason, 1872
Type species
Nephropsis stewarti

Nephropsis is a genus of lobsters containing 18 extant species:1

Species

  • Nephropsis acanthura Macpherson, 1990
  • Nephropsis aculeata Smith, 1881
  • Nephropsis agassizii A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
IZ 1151429 specimen of N. agassizii, recently defrosted specimen photographed prior to preservation source ↗
  • Nephropsis atlantica Norman, 1882
  • Nephropsis carpenteri Wood-Mason, 1885
  • Nephropsis ensirostris Alcock, 1901
N. ensirostris source ↗
  • Nephropsis grandis Zarenkov, 2006
  • Nephropsis holthuisii Macpherson, 1993
N. holthuisi source ↗
    • Nephropsis macphersoni Watabe & Iizuka, 1999 is a synonym
  • Nephropsis malhaensis Borradaile, 1910
  • Nephropsis neglecta Holthuis, 1974
  • Nephropsis occidentalis Faxon, 1893
  • Nephropsis pygmaea Chang, Chan & Kumar, 2020
  • Nephropsis rahayuae Chang, Chan & Kumar, 2020
  • Nephropsis rosea Bate, 1888
  • Nephropsis serrata Macpherson, 1993
N. serrata source ↗
  • Nephropsis stewarti Wood-Mason, 1872
N. stewarti source ↗
  • Nephropsis suhmi Bate, 1888
  • Nephropsis sulcata Macpherson, 1990

One further fossil species has also been described:2

  • Nephropsis midwayensis Rathbun, 1935
References

References

  1. Ahyong, Shane (2023). "Nephropsis Wood-Mason, 1872". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  2. 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 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2012-04-13.