Pasiphaeidae

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Pasiphaeidae
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Pasiphaea sivado
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily: Pasiphaeoidea
Dana, 1852
Family: Pasiphaeidae
Dana, 1852
Genera

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Pasiphaeidae is a family of shrimp. It is the only family in the superfamily Pasiphaeoidea and contains seven extant genera: [1]

Pasiphaea japonica (shiroebi) as sushi Siroebi siraebi gunkan sushi.jpg
Pasiphaea japonica (shiroebi) as sushi

References

  1. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-03-17.