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Crangonidae
Crangonidae is a family of shrimp, of the superfamily Crangonoidea, including the commercially important species Crangon crangon. Its type genus is Crangon. Crangonid shrimps' first pair of pereiopods have partially 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.
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.
23 branches of this family, most-observed first
Crangon
genusCrangon
Lissocrangon
genusLissocrangon
Philocheras
genusPhilocheras
Mesocrangon
genusMesocrangon
Sclerocrangon
genusSclerocrangon
Paracrangon
genusParacrangon
Pontophilus
genusPontophilus
Sabinea
genusSabinea
Rhynocrangon
genusRhynocrangon
Argis
genusArgis
Vercoia
genusVercoia
Metacrangon
genusMetacrangon
Aegaeon
genusAegaeon
Pontocaris
genusPontocaris
Neocrangon
genusNeocrangon
Notocrangon
genusNotocrangon
Parapontocaris
genusParapontocaris
Parapontophilus
genusParapontophilus
Lissosabinea
genusLissosabinea
Pseudopontophilus
genusPseudopontophilus
Prionocrangon
genusPrionocrangon
Placopsicrangon
genusPlacopsicrangon
Syncrangon
genusSyncrangon
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47290.