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TAXONOMY Freshwater shrimps not so long ago debut in aquarist. Still new species and strains are being discovered. Still it shows that different strains are affecting different species and vice versa. Books and articles about systematic, as well as publication in other realms of science, in the moment of publication are already not up to date. It's good to use reliable web pages about systematic and names. This kind of webpage is http://www.itis.usda.govAt the moment classification look like below: Kingdom: Animalia Type: Arthropoda Subtype: Crustacea Cluster: Malacostraca Sub cluster: Eumalacostraca Overorder: Eucarida Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Section: Caridea Caridea divides to over families, from which we are interested only in 2: Atyoidea and Palaemonoidea To over family Atyoidea belongs to only one family Atyidae (those are only freshwater shrimps) in this family we have such kinds: - Antecaridina - Atya - Atyoida - Caridina - Halocaridina - Jonga - Neocaridina - Palaemonias - Paratya - Potimirim - Syncaris - Xiphocaris In over family Palaemonoidea we have many families of freshwater and sea shrimps, but for us, as freshwater ones maniacs, interesting will be only one Palaemonidae and its subfamily Palaemoninae. To it belong to kinds that we keep in tanks: Palaemon and Macrobrachium. |