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Crangon

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Crangon
Crangon crangon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Crangonidae
Genus: Crangon
Fabricius, 1798
[non Weber, 1795]
Type species
Crangon crangon
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
  • Bannikovia Garassino & Teruzzi, 1996
  • Crago Lamarck, 1801
  • Crangon (Crangon) Fabricius, 1798
  • Crangonus Rafinesque, 1815
  • Longitergite Garassino & Teruzzi, 1996
  • Steiracrangon Kinahan, 1862

Crangon is a genus of shrimp.

Distribution

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Crangon species are found exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere, with most of the species occurring in the northern Pacific Ocean.[2] C. septemspinosa is the only species in the genus to occur in the north-western Atlantic Ocean, while in the north-eastern Atlantic, C. crangon and C. allmani occur.[2] With the exception of the important commercial species C. crangon, however, the distributions of Crangon species are poorly characterised.[2] The greater number of species in the Pacific Ocean is thought to indicate that the genus originated in the Pacific.[2]

Species

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Crangon contains the following extant species:[3][1]

A further two species are known from the fossil record.[4]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Crangon Fabricius, 1798". DecaNet. World Register of Marine Species. 2026. Retrieved 30 April 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Joana Campos; Cláudia Moreira; Fabiana Freitas & Henk W. van der Veer (2012). "Short review of the eco-geography of Crangon". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 32 (2): 159–169. doi:10.1163/193724011X615569.
  3. S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen (2011). "Carideorum Catalogus: the Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)". Zoologische Mededelingen. 85 (9): 195–589, figs. 1–59. ISBN 978-90-6519-200-4.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. 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 2011-06-06.