Species list, Checklist of Class Malacostraca (Higher Crustaceans) for Burkina Faso (West Africa)

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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Checklist for Class Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 (Higher Crustaceans)
and region Burkina Faso (West Africa)

Class

Malacostraca
Latreille, 1802
Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans

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5

Families
Genera
Species

Taxom

List of families for Burkina Faso
4 Families width 5 Species

Gnathiidae Leach, 1814		2	Species	Taxom
Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815	Swimming Crab	1	Species	Taxom
Lysianassidae (Dana, 1849)		1	Species	Taxom
Oplophoridae Dana, 1852	Deepsea shrimps	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Burkina Faso
5 Genera with 5 Species

Bathygnathia Dollfus, 1994	1	Species	Taxom
Gnathia Leach, 1994	1	Species	Taxom
Liocarcinus Stimpson, 1777	1	Species	Taxom
Lysianassa Milne-Edwards, 1889	1	Species	Taxom
Systellaspis Bate, 1987	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Burkina Faso
5 Species

Bathygnathia tapinoma Cohen & Poore, 1994
Gnathia camponotus Cohen & Poore, 1994
Liocarcinus corrugatus Pennant, 1777	Wrinkled swimming crab
Lysianassa ceratina (Walker, 1889)	⇒ Lysianassa caesarea Ruffo, 1987
Systellaspis intermedia Crosnier, 1987

Subnodes of Malacostraca with occurrences in Burkina Faso

Subclass

Eumalacostraca
Grobben, 1892

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5

Families
Genera
Species

Taxom

Links, sources and further information

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