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 Alpheoidea > Family Hippolytidae > Genus Hippolyte

Hippolyte varians Leach, 1814

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hippolyte*	Leach, 1814	accepted genus name
*Bellidia*	Gosse, 1877	synonym
*Virbius*	Stimpson, 1860	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: kamæleonreje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: veranderlijke steurgarnaal sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

English: chamaeleon prawn; chameleon prawn sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.;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.

French: crevette des herbiers; hippolyte sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

German: Chamäleongarnele; farbwechselnde Garnele 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.;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

Norwegian Bokmål: sjøgressreke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: sjøgrasreke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: kamouflageräka

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	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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Holthuis, L.B.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (1993). Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. 15. Second Edition.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Hippolyte varians Leach, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107518