Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Alpheoidea for Orkney Islands (Northern Isles, United Kingdom)

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Checklist for Superfamily Alpheoidea Rafinesque, 1815
and region Orkney Islands (Northern Isles, United Kingdom)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	57 80 119	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	56 79 118	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	22 31 54	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	22 31 54	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	22 31 54	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Caridea Dana, 1852 Caridean shrimps	5 10 14	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Alpheoidea Rafinesque, 1815	2 3 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Orkney Islands
2 Families width 4 Species

Thoridae (Kingsley, 1878)	Anemone shrimp	3	Species	Taxom
Hippolytidae Dana, 1852	Anemone shrimp	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Orkney Islands
3 Genera with 4 Species

Species list for Orkney Islands
4 Species

Eualus gaimardii H. Milne Edw..., 1837	Circumpolar eualid
Eualus pusiolus Krøyer, 1841	Doll eualid
Hippolyte varians Leach, 1814	Chamaeleon Prawn
Spirontocaris lilljeborgii (Danielssen, 1859)	⇒ Spirontocaris liljeborgii Danielssen, 1859

Subnodes of Alpheoidea with occurrences in Orkney Islands

Family	Hippolytidae Dana, 1852 Anemone shrimp, Anemone shrimps, Broken-back shrimp, Broken-back shrimps, Cleaner shrimps, Cock Shrimps, Humpback Prawns	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Thoridae Kingsley, 1878 anemone shrimp, Broken-back shrimp	2 3	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Alpheoidea at artfakta.se
Alpheoidea at biodiversity.org.au
Alpheoidea at dyntaxa.se
Alpheoidea at itis.gov
Alpheoidea at marinespecies.org