Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Pandaloidea > Family Pandalidae > Genus Heterocarpus

Heterocarpus ensifer A. Milne-Edwards, 1881

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Heterocarpus*	A. Milne-Edwards, 1881b	accepted genus name

Children

Heterocarpus ensifer ensifer A. Milne-Edwards, 1881

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: armed nylon shrimp

Literature

original description	Milne-Edwards, A., 1881b. Description de quelques crustacés macroures provenant des grandes profondeurs de la Mer des Antilles.— Annales des Sciences Naturelles (6) 11: 1-15.
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	Holthuis, L.B., 1980b. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 1 - Shrimps and Prawns of the World. An Annotated Catalogue of Species of Interest to Fisheries.— FAO Fisheries Synopsis 125 (Vol. 1): i-xvii, 1-271.
additional source	Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection
GenBank (9 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

De Grave, S.; Fransen, C. (2014). Heterocarpus ensifer A. Milne-Edwards, 1881. 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:107644