Ancylomenes Explained

Ancylomenes is a genus of shrimp, erected in 2010 to accommodate the group of species around "Periclimenes aesopius" (now Ancylomenes aesopius).^[1] Members of the genus are widely distributed in the warm oceans of the world, and live in association with cnidarians;^[2] most are cleaner shrimp.^[1]

The genus Ancylomenes contains the following species:^[3]

• Ancylomenes adularans (Bruce, 2003)
• Ancylomenes aesopius (Spence Bate, 1863)
• Ancylomenes amirantei (Bruce, 2007)
• Ancylomenes aqabai (Bruce, 2008)
• Ancylomenes grandidens (Bruce, 2005)
• Ancylomenes holthuisi (Bruce, 1969)
• Ancylomenes kobayashii (Okuno & Nomura, 2002)
• Ancylomenes kuboi Bruce, 2010
• Ancylomenes longicarpus (Bruce & Svoboda, 1983)
• Ancylomenes lucasi (Chace, 1937)
• Ancylomenes luteomaculatus Okuno & Bruce, 2010
• Ancylomenes magnificus (Bruce, 1979)
• Ancylomenes okunoi Bruce, 2010
• Ancylomenes pedersoni (Chace, 1958)
• Ancylomenes sarasvati (Okuno, 2002)
• Ancylomenes speciosus (Okuno, 2004)
• Ancylomenes tenuirostris (Bruce, 1991)
• Ancylomenes tosaensis (Kubo, 1951)
• Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989)

Notes and References

1. Book: 978-1-86977-457-8. J. Okuno & A. J. Bruce . 2010 . Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species . 85–105; 1–414 . S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen . Contributions to shrimp taxonomy . . 2372 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11 . http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/31325/31325.pdf .
2. Bos AR, Hoeksema BW . 2015 . Cryptobenthic fishes and co-inhabiting shrimps associated with the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis (Fungiidae) in the Davao Gulf, Philippines . Environmental Biology of Fishes . 98 . 6 . 1479–1489 . 10.1007/s10641-014-0374-0 . 14834695 .
3. Charles Fransen & Sammy De Grave . 2012 . Ancylomenes Okuno & Bruce, 2010 . 513982 . June 1, 2012.