Species list, Checklist of Infraorder Caridea (Caridean shrimps) for Cape Town (Western Cape)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Infraorder Caridea Dana, 1852 (Caridean shrimps)
and region Cape Town (Western Cape)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	55 75 94	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	54 74 92	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	20 24 27	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	20 24 27	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	16 19 18	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Caridea Dana, 1852 Caridean shrimps	3 4 2	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cape Town
3 Families width 2 Species

Acanthephyridae Dana, 1852		1	Species	Taxom
Hippolytidae Dana, 1852	Anemone shrimp	0	Species	Taxom
Oplophoridae Dana, 1852	Deepsea shrimps	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape Town
4 Genera with 2 Species

Acanthephyra Milne-Edwards, 1881	0	Species	Taxom
Kemphyra Chace, 1883	1	Species	Taxom
Merhippolyte Bate, 1888	0	Species	Taxom
Systellaspis Bate, 1986	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape Town
2 Species

Kemphyra corallina A.Milne-Edwards, 1883
Systellaspis eltanini Wasmer, 1986

Subnodes of Caridea with occurrences in Cape Town

Superfamily	Alpheoidea Rafinesque, 1815	1 1 0	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Oplophoroidea Dana, 1852	2 3 2	Families Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

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