Crangonidae
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| Crangon crangon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Superfamily: | Crangonoidea |
| Family: | Crangonidae Haworth, 1825 |
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Crangonidae is a
chelate claws that they use to capture their prey. They burrow shallowly into sediment on the sea floor, and feed on bivalves, crustaceans, polychaetes, and some small fish.[1]
Two fossil species are known: Crangon miocenicus, discovered in 2001 in the early Miocene of the north Caucasus in Russia, and Morscrangon acutus, discovered in 2006 in the fur formation (early Eocene) in Denmark.[2]
Twenty-four genera are included in the family:[3]
- Aegaeon Agassiz, 1846
- Argis Krøyer, 1842
- Crangon Fabricius, 1798
- Lissocrangon Kuris & Carlton, 1977
- Lissosabinea Christoffersen, 1988
- Mesocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
- Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965
- †Morscrangon Garassino & Jakobsen, 2005
- Neocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
- Notocrangon Coutière, 1900
- Paracrangon Dana, 1852a
- Parapontocaris Alcock, 1901
- Parapontophilus Christoffersen, 1988
- Philocheras Stebbing, 1900
- Placopsicrangon Komai & Chan, 2009
- Pontocaris Bate, 1888
- Pontophilus Leach, 1817
- Pseudopontophilus Komai, 2004
- Prionocrangon Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
- Rhynocrangon Zarenkov, 1965
- Sabinea J. C. Ross, 1835
- Sclerocrangon Sars, 1883
- Syncrangon Kim & Hayashi, 2003
- Vercoia Baker, 1904
References
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- Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-06-06.
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