Lepidophthalmus Explained

Lepidophthalmus is a genus of ghost shrimp.

Species

Lepidophthalmus contains the following species:^[1]

• Lepidophthalmus bocourti (A. Milne-Edwards, 1870)
• Lepidophthalmus eiseni Holmes, 1904
• Lepidophthalmus grandidieri (Coutière, 1899)
• Lepidophthalmus jamaicense (Schmitt, 1935)
• Lepidophthalmus louisianensis (Schmitt, 1935)
• Lepidophthalmus manningi Feder & Staton, 2000
• Lepidophthalmus rafai Felder & Manning, 1998
• Lepidophthalmus richardi Felder & Manning, 1997
• Lepidophthalmus rosae (Nobili, 1904)
• Lepidophthalmus sinuensis Lemaitre & Rodrigues, 1991
• Lepidophthalmus siriboia Felder & Rodrigues, 1993
• Lepidophthalmus socotrensis Sakai & Apel, 2002
• Lepidophthalmus tridentatus (Von Martens, 1868)
• Lepidophthalmus turneranus (White, 1861)

Only one species is known from the fossil record:^[2] Remains attributable to the extant species Lepidophthalmus jamaicense have been found in Upper Pleistocene deposits at Port Morant Harbour in the parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: G. C. B. Poore . 2010 . Lepidophthalmus Holmes, 1904 . . September 1, 2010.
2. . 2009 . Suppl. 21 . 1–109 . A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans . Sammy De Grave . N. Dean Pentcheff . Shane T. Ahyong . etal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf . 2011-06-06 .
3. J. S. H. Collins . S. K. Donovan . T. A. Stemann . 2009 . Fossil Crustacea of the Late Pleistocene Port Morant Formation, west Port Morant Harbour, southeastern Jamaica . . 138 . 23–53 .