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

Upogebia Leach, 1814

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bigea*	Nardo, 1869	synonym
*Gebia*	Leach, 1816	synonym

Children

Upogebia deltaura (Leach, 1816)
Upogebia mediterranea Noël, 1992
Upogebia pusilla (Petagna, 1792)
Upogebia stellata (Montagu, 1808)
Upogebia tipica (Nardo, 1869)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: アナジャコ属

Literature

original description	Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].
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	Sakai, K. (2006). Upogebiidae of the world (Decapoda, Thalassinidea. Crustaceana Monographs. 6: 1-185.
additional source	Barnard, K.H. (1950). Descriptive catalogue of South African decapod Crustacea (crabs and shrimps). Annals of the South African Museum. 38: 1-837.
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.
additional source	Holthuis, L. B. (1991). FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125(13): 1–292.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Upogebia Leach, 1814. 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:107079