Faxon's lucifer prawn
Belzebub faxoni
Classification
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Luciferidae
Lucifer est un genre de crustacés décapodes (crevettes), le seul de la famille des Luciferidae. Ce sont des crevettes bioluminescentes. Liste des genres Selon World Register of Marine Species (31 décembre 2014) : Lucifer chacei Bowman, 1967 Lucifer faxoni Borradaile, 1915 Lucifer hanseni Nobili, 1905 Lucifer intermedius Hansen, 1919 Lucifer orientalis Hansen, 1919 Lucifer penicillifer Hansen, 1919 Lucifer typus H.
Belzebub faxoni, formerly known as Lucifer faxoni and now widely known as "Lucifer shrimp" or "Faxon's lucifer prawn", is a species of short-lived, predatory, planktonic shrimp commonly found in the neretic waters of the coastal Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Originally described in 1915 by English zoologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile, Belzebub faxoni were originally classified under the genus Lucifer, being given the name Lucifer faxoni. Following a phylogenic analysis of the family Luciferidae, morphological differences were revealed within the family that resulted in the creation of the…
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