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 Lysmatidae > Genus Lysmata

Lysmata nilita Dohrn & Holthuis, 1950

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lysmata*	Risso, 1816	accepted genus name
*Hippolysmata*	Stimpson, 1860	synonym
*Melicerta*	Risso, 1816	synonym

Literature

original description	Dohrn, P.F.R.; Holthuis, L.B. (1950). Lysmata nilita, a new species of prawn (Crustacea Decapoda) from the Western Mediterranean. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli. 22: 339-347; Pls. 9-10.
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.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Lysmata nilita Dohrn & Holthuis, 1950. 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:107526