bristle-footed ghost shrimp

Gilvossius setimanus

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Callianassidae

Gilvossius is a genus of thalassinidean crustacean erected in 1992 from former members of the genus Callianassa. It is distinguished from Callianassa by the rounded, rather than squarish telson, and by the absence of the first two pleopods in males. The genus contains the following species: Gilvossius arguinensis Sakai, Türkay, Beuck & Freiwald, 2015 Gilvossius candidus (Olivi, 1792) Gilvossius convexus (de Saint Laurent & Le Loeuff, 1979) Gilvossius fredericqae Felder & Robles, 2020 Gilvossius howellorum Felder & Robles, 2020 Gilvossius persicus (Sakai, 2005) Gilvossius rotundicaudatus…

Distribution

bristle-footed ghost shrimp — (c) Robert (Bob) Bachand, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 3

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Robert (Bob) Bachand, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionGilvossius, Wikipedia contributors

bristle-footed ghost shrimp

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