Neocallichirus

Neocallichirus
Neocallichirus jousseaumei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Callichiridae
Genus:	Neocallichirus Sakai, 1988

Neocallichirus is a genus of ghost shrimp crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Axiidea, within the order Decapoda. ^[1]

Species

There are 34 species assigned to this genus of mud shrimp: ^[2]

• Neocallichirus angelikae (Sakai, 2000)
• Neocallichirus auchenorhynchus (Sakai, 2005)
• Neocallichirus cacahuate (Felder & Manning, 1995)
• Neocallichirus calmani (Nobili, 1904)
• Neocallichirus darvishi (Sepahvand, Komai, Momtazi & Shahabi, 2018)
• Neocallichirus darwinensis (Sakai, 1988)
• Neocallichirus frouini (Ngoc-Ho, 2005)
• Neocallichirus grandimana (Gibbes, 1850)
• Neocallichirus guaiqueri (Blanco Rambla, Liñero Arana & Beltán Lares, 1995)
• Neocallichirus guara (Rodrigues, 1971)
• Neocallichirus guassutinga (Rodrigues, 1971)
• Neocallichirus horneri (Sakai, 1988)
• Neocallichirus jousseaumei (Nobili, 1904)
• Neocallichirus lemaitrei (Manning, 1993)
• Neocallichirus manningi (Kazmi & Kazmi, 1992)
• Neocallichirus maryae (Karasawa, 2004)
• Neocallichirus mauritianus (Miers, 1882)
• Neocallichirus mericeae (Manning & Felder, 1995)
• Neocallichirus moluccensis (De Man, 1905)
• Neocallichirus mortenseni (Sakai, 2005)
• Neocallichirus nagoi (Poore, 2023)
• Neocallichirus natalensis (Barnard, 1947)
• Neocallichirus nickellae (Manning, 1993)
• Neocallichirus pachydactylus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1870)
• Neocallichirus pinheiroi (Hernáez, Windsor, Paula & Santana, 2020)
• Neocallichirus pola (Sakai & Türkay, 2014)
• Neocallichirus raymanningi (Blanco Rambla & Lemaitre, 1999)
• Neocallichirus sassandrensis ((Le Loeuff & Intes, 1974)
• Neocallichirus spiridonovi (Sakai, 2010)
• Neocallichirus sulfureus (Lemaitre & Felder, 1996)
• Neocallichirus taiaro (Ngoc-Ho, 1995)
• Neocallichirus variabilis (Edmondson, 1944)
• Neocallichirus vaugelasi (Dworschak, 2011)
• Neocallichirus vigilax (De Man, 1916)

References

1. Sakai, K. (1988). "A new genus and five new species of Callianassidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) from Northern Australia". The Beagle: Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. 5 (1): 51–59.
2. "Neocallichirus Sakai, 1988". DecaNet. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 30 November 2025.