Benthesicymus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Benthesicymidae
- Genus
- Benthesicymus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Benthesicymus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Benthesicymus
Benthesicymus is a genus of prawns, containing the following species:
A single fossil species, formerly included in the genus Benthesicymus, is now placed in a separate genus, Palaeobenthesicymus.
A 2020 study showed Benthesicymus to be paraphyletic with five robust clades, 4 of which were diagnosed as new genera:
- Bathicaris Vereshchaka & Lunina, 2020, gen. nov.
- Bathicaris brasiliensis (Spence Bate, 1881), comb. nov.
- Bathicaris cereus (Burkenroad, 1936), comb. nov.
- Bathicaris iridescens (Spence Bate, 1881), comb. nov.
- Bathicaris seymouri (Tirmizi, 1960), comb. nov.
- Bathicaris strabus (Burkenroad, 1936), comb. nov.
- Bathicaris urinator (Burkenroad, 1936), comb. nov.
- Dalicaris Vereshchaka & Lunina, 2020, gen. nov.
- Dalicaris altus (Spence Bate, 1881), comb. nov.
- Maorrancaris Vereshchaka & Lunina, 2020, gen. nov.
- Maorrancaris investigatoris (Alcock & Anderson, 1899), comb. nov
- Trichocaris Vereshchaka & Lunina, 2020, gen. nov.
- Trichocaris bartletti (Smith, 1882), comb. nov.
- Trichocaris tanneri (Faxon, 1893), comb. nov.
- Trichocaris tirmiziae (Crosnier, 1978), comb. nov.
Benthesicymus in languages:
- Japanese
- ソコチヒロエビ属