Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Palaemonoidea > Family Palaemonidae

Periclimenes O.G. Costa, 1844

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anchistia*	Dana, 1852	synonym
*Dennisia*	Norman, 1861	synonym
*Periclimenes (Periclimenes)*	O.G. Costa, 1844	synonym

Children

Periclimenes aegylios Grippa & d'Udekem d'Acoz, 1996
Periclimenes amethysteus (Risso, 1827)
Periclimenes eleftherioui Koukouras & Türkay, 1996
Periclimenes granulatus Holthuis, 1950
Periclimenes kornii (Lo Bianco, 1903)
Periclimenes sagittifer (Norman, 1861)
Periclimenes scriptus (Risso, 1822)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: anemone shrimps; cleaner shrimps; coral shrimps; grass shrimps sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Partnergarnelen sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: ホンカクレエビ属

Literature

original description	Costa, O. G. (1844). Su due nuovi generi di Crostacei decapodi macrouri. Annali delle Accademia degli Aspiranti Naturalisti. 2: 285-292.
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589.
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
additional source	Derijard, R. (1966). Note preliminaire sur les crustaces stomatopodes et decapodes recoltes a l'ile Europa du 6 au 24 Avril 1964. Mem Mus Natn Hist Nat, Paris 4 (41): 159-180
additional source	d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Paris. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Periclimenes O.G. Costa, 1844. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107035