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 Processoidea > Family Processidae > Genus Processa

Processa edulis (Risso, 1816)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Processa*	Leach, 1815	accepted genus name
*Nika*	Risso, 1816	synonym

Species group names

*Nika edulis*	Risso, 1816	synonym
*Nikoides pontica*	Sowinsky, 1882	synonym
*Processa edulis arcassonensis*	Nouvel & Holthuis, 1957	synonym
*Processa edulis edulis*	(Risso, 1816)	synonym
*Processa pontica*	(Sowinsky, 1882)	synonym

Children

Processa edulis crassipes Nouvel & Holthuis, 1957

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: dikke nikagarnaal sources: Leewis, R.; Heerebout, G.R.; Jacobusse, C. (Ed.) (2010). Zeefauna in Zeeland: 2. Kreeften, krabben en garnalen. Fauna Zeelandica. Stichting Het Zeeuwse Landschap/: Wilhelminadorp. ISBN 978-94-90562-02-8. 144 pp.

Greek: Γαριδούλα

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	Gurney, R. (1937). Notes on some Decapod Crustacea from the Red Sea I. The Genus Processa. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. Vol 107 (B) 85 -101.
additional source	Holthuis, L.B.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (1993). Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. 15. Second Edition.
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. Processa edulis (Risso, 1816). 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:107683