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 Bythocarididae > Genus Bythocaris

Bythocaris leucopis G.O. Sars, 1879

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bythocaris*	G.O. Sars, 1870	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Bythocaris leucopsis*	G.O. Sars, 1879	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: white shrimp sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: crevette rayée

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1879). Crustacea et Pycnogonida nova in itinere 2do et 3tio expeditionis Norvegicae anno 1877 & 78 collecta (prodromus descriptionis). [New Crustacea and Pycnogonida collected during the 2nd and 3rd voyages of the Norwegian expedition in 1877 & 78 (prologue to the description). Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab. 4: 427-476.
basis of record	Huettmann, F. (2007). ArcOD species list by Falk Huettmann. provided on 2007-11-25.
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. Bythocaris leucopis G.O. Sars, 1879. 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:254699