Ancylomenes
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Ancylomenes is a genus of shrimp, erected in 2010 to accommodate the group of species around "Periclimenes aesopius" (now Ancylomenes aesopius).[1] Members of the genus are widely distributed in the warm oceans of the world, and live in association with cnidarians;[2] most are cleaner shrimp.[1]
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Ancylomenes | |
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Ancylomenes pedersoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Caridea |
Family: | Palaemonidae |
Genus: | Ancylomenes Okuno & Bruce, 2010 |
Type species | |
Periclimenes venustus Bruce, 1990 |
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The genus Ancylomenes contains the following species:[3]
- Ancylomenes adularans (Bruce, 2003)
- Ancylomenes aesopius (Spence Bate, 1863)
- Ancylomenes amirantei (Bruce, 2007)
- Ancylomenes aqabai (Bruce, 2008)
- Ancylomenes grandidens (Bruce, 2005)
- Ancylomenes holthuisi (Bruce, 1969)
- Ancylomenes kobayashii (Okuno & Nomura, 2002)
- Ancylomenes kuboi Bruce, 2010
- Ancylomenes longicarpus (Bruce & Svoboda, 1983)
- Ancylomenes lucasi (Chace, 1937)
- Ancylomenes luteomaculatus Okuno & Bruce, 2010
- Ancylomenes magnificus (Bruce, 1979)
- Ancylomenes okunoi Bruce, 2010
- Ancylomenes pedersoni (Chace, 1958)
- Ancylomenes sarasvati (Okuno, 2002)
- Ancylomenes speciosus (Okuno, 2004)
- Ancylomenes tenuirostris (Bruce, 1991)
- Ancylomenes tosaensis (Kubo, 1951)
- Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989)