Species list, Checklist of Family Palaemonidae (Palaemonid Shrimps) for Cape Peninsula (Western Cape)

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Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
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Checklist for Family Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Palaemonid Shrimps)
and region Cape Peninsula (Western Cape)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	136 305 388	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	135 304 387	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	66 164 239	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	65 161 236	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	59 147 217	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Caridea Dana, 1852 Caridean shrimps	10 16 23	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Palaemonoidea Rafinesque, 1815	1 2 4	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815 Palaemonid Shrimps	2 4	Genera Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape Peninsula
2 Genera with 4 Species

Periclimenes Costa, 1878	anemone shrimps	1	Species	Taxom
Pontonia Latreille, 1869		3	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape Peninsula
4 Species

Periclimenes americanus (Kingsley, 1878)	⇒ Cuapetes americanus Kingsley, 1878
Pontonia domestica Gibbes, 1850	Atlantic pen shrimp
Pontonia manningi Fransen, 2000	Atlantic pearl oyster shrimp
Pontonia margarita Verrill, 1869	Pearl oyster shrimp

Subnodes of Palaemonidae with occurrences in Cape Peninsula

Subfamily

Pontoniinae
Kingsley, 1878

2
4

Genera
Species

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Links, sources and further information

Palaemonidae at artfakta.se
Palaemonidae at biodiversity.org.au
Palaemonidae at dyntaxa.se
Palaemonidae at gbif.org
Palaemonidae at irmng.org
Palaemonidae at itis.gov
Palaemonidae at marinespecies.org