Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Palaemonoidea > Family Palaemonidae > Subfamily Pontoniinae > Genus Periclimenes

Periclimenes amethysteus (Risso, 1827)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Periclimenes*	O.G. Costa, 1844a	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: gamba comensal sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

English: shrimp retainer sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

French: crevette améthyste; crevette rose un convive sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

German: Garnele Gefolgsmann sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Italian: gamberetto dell'attinia

Spanish, Castillian: gamba comensal

Literature

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. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.

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Taxonomy

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External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2014). Periclimenes amethysteus (Risso, 1827). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107627