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 Oplophoroidea > Family Acanthephyridae

Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, 1881

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bentheocaris*	Spence Bate, 1888	synonym

Children

Acanthephyra brevirostris Smith, 1885
Acanthephyra curtirostris Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
Acanthephyra eximia Smith, 1884
Acanthephyra pelagica (Risso, 1816)
Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards, 1881
Acanthephyra stylorostratis (Spence Bate, 1888)
Acanthephyra tenuipes (Spence Bate, 1888)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヒオドシエビ属

Literature

original description	Milne-Edwards, A. (1881). Description de quelques crustacés macroures provenant des grandes profondeurs de la Mer des Antilles. Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie, ser. 6. 11(4): 1-16.
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.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Crosnier, A. (1988). Oplophoridae (Crustacea Decapoda) récoltés de 1971 à 1982 par les navires françaises dans l'océan Indien occidental sud. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (4) section A, Zoologie, Biologie et Écologie animales. 9: 695-726.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, 1881. 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:107018