Upogebiidae

Family of crustaceans

Upogebiidae
Upogebia deltaura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Gebiidea
Family: Upogebiidae
Borradaile, 1903
Genera

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Upogebiidae is a family of mud shrimp crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Gebiidea, within the order Decapoda. They are infauna, living their entire adult lives in seafloor burrows. Over 100 species have been identified, with different species often highly specialized for different types of substrate, even including sea sponges or coral.[1] They are filter feeders, although some species also deposit feed.[2]

Upogebiidae contains the following genera:[3]

  • Acutigebia Sakai, 1982
  • Aethogebia A. B. Williams, 1993
  • Arabigebicula Sakai, 2006
  • Austinogebia Ngoc-Ho, 2001
  • Gebiacantha Ngoc-Ho, 1989
  • Gebicula Alcock, 1901
  • Mantisgebia Sakai, 2006
  • Neogebicula Sakai, 1982
  • Pomatogebia Williams & Ngoc-Ho, 1990
  • Tuerkayogebia Sakai, 1982
  • Upogebia Leach, 1814
  • Wolffogebia Sakai, 1982

References

  1. ^ Williams, Austin B. (1993). "Mud shrimps, Upogebiidae, from the western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinoidea)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 544. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.544.
  2. ^ VÂNIA R. COELHO; AUSTIN B. WILLIAMS; SÉRGIO A. DE RODRIGUES (December 2000). "Trophic strategies and functional morphology of feeding appendages, with emphasis on setae, of Upogebia omissa and Pomatogebia operculata (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 130 (4): 567–602. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb02202.x.
  3. ^ "Upogebiidae Borradaile, 1903". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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Subgroups of Order Decapoda
Dendrobranchiata
Dendrobranchiata (prawns)

Stenopodidea (boxer shrimp) Caridea (true shrimp) Achelata (spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters) Astacidea (lobsters, crayfish) Anomura (hermit crabs and others)

Brachyura (crabs)
Pleocyemata
Stenopodidea
Procarididea
Caridea
Reptantia
Achelata
Polychelida
Glypheidea
Astacidea
Axiidea
Gebiidea
Anomura
Brachyura
    • see Brachyura
Taxon identifiers
Upogebiidae


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