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Hippolytoid shrimps
Family Hippolytidae
updated Jan 2020
What are Hippolytid shrimps? Hippolytid shrimps are crustaceans that belong to Family Hippolytidae.

Features: Tiny (under 1cm) to small (2-5cm long). This family is large and includes a wide range of shimps found in a wide range of habitats: such as cleaner shrimps, shrimps with bent backs, sometimes called 'broke-back' or humpbacked shrimps. As well as very long slender shrimps that live on sea whips.
Some Hippolytoid shrimps on Singapore shores
Family Hippolytidae recorded for Singapore
 from The Biodiversity of Singapore, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.
+from Singapore Biodiversity Records etc .

  Family Hippolytidae
  Gelastocaris paronae

Hippolysmata enriostris=^Exhippolysmata ensirostris ensirostris
+Hippolyte singaporensis spec. nov.
Hippolyte ventricosa
Hippolysmata vittata=^Lysmata vittata

Hippolyte ventricosa

Latreutes anoplonyx
Latreutes mucronatus
Latreutes porcinus
Latreutes pymaeus=^Latreutes pymoeus

Lysmata sp. (Cleaner shrimp)
**Lysmata vittata

Mimocaris heterocarpoides

Phycocaris sp.

Saron sp. (Saron shrimp)
Saron marmoratus (Marbled shrimp)
Saron neglectus

Thor paschalis

Tozeuma lanceolatum (Sea whip shrimp)

References

  • Zhibin Gan & Xinzheng Li. A new species of the genus Hippolyte (Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from Singapore. 12 June 2017. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65: 207–212
  • Lim, S., P. Ng, L. Tan, & W. Y. Chin, 1994. Rhythm of the Sea: The Life and Times of Labrador Beach. Division of Biology, School of Science, Nanyang Technological University & Department of Zoology, the National University of Singapore. 160 pp.
  • Debelius, Helmut, 2001. Crustacea Guide of the World: Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean IKAN-Unterwasserachiv, Frankfurt. 321 pp.
  • Jones Diana S. and Gary J. Morgan, 2002. A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Australian Waters. Reed New Holland. 224 pp.
  • Humann, Paul and Ned Deloach. 2010. Reef Creature Identification: Tropical Pacific New World Publications. 497pp.
  • Debelius, Helmut, 2001. Crustacea Guide of the World: Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean IKAN-Unterwasserachiv, Frankfurt. 321 pp.
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