Parapenaeus

{{Taxobox
| name = Parapenaeus
| image = Gamba blanca 01.JPG 
| image_caption = Parapenaeus longirostris
| image_width = 225px
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| subphylum = Crustacea
| classis = Malacostraca
| ordo = Decapoda
| subordo = Dendrobranchiata
| infraordo = Caridea
| superfamilia = Penaeoidea
| familia = Penaeidae
| genus = Parapenaeus
| genus_authority = Smith, 1885Parapenaeus Smith, 1885 no WoRMS. 
| subdivision_ranks = Especies
| subdivision = Véxase o texto}}Parapenaeus é un xénero de crustáceos decápodos carideos da familia dos peneidos que comprende diversas especies de gambas, algunhas de grande importancia económica.

 Taxonomía 
O xénero foi establacido en 1885 polo zoólogo estadounidense de orixe norueguesa Sidney Irving Smith (1843-1926).Smith, S. I. (1885): "On some genera and species of Penaeidae, mostly from dredgings off the east coast of the United States Fish Commission". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 8: 170-190.

 Especies 
O xénero comprende as seguintes especies:
 Parapenaeus americanus Rathbun, 1901
 Parapenaeus australiensis Dall, 1957
 Parapenaeus cayrei Crosnier, 2005
 Parapenaeus constrictus Parapenaeus fissurus (Spence Bate, 1881)
 Parapenaeus investigatoris Alcock & Anderson, 1899
 Parapenaeus kensleyi Crosnier, 2005
 Parapenaeus lanceolatus Kubo, 1949
 Parapenaeus longipes Alcock, 1905
 Parapenaeus longirostris (Lucas, 1846) — Xénero tipo
 Parapenaeus murrayi Ramadan, 1938
 Parapenaeus perezfarfantae Crosnier, 1986
 Parapenaeus politus (Smith, 1881)
 Parapenaeus ruberoculatus Hall, 1962
 Parapenaeus sextuberculatus Kubo, 1949

 Notas 

 Véxase tamén 

 Bibliografía 
 Costello, M. J., Emblow, C. & White, R. J. (eds.) (2001): European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. París: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 
 Holthuis, L. B. (1993): The recent genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda): with an appendix on the order Amphionidacea. Leiden: Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum. ISBN 90-73239-21-4.
 Raabe, Charles & Linda Raabe (2008): "The Caridean shrimp: Shrimp Anatomy - Illustrations and Glossary ".
 Tavares, Carolina & Joel W. Martin (2010): "Suborder Dendrobranchiata Bate, 1888", en F. R. Schram, J. C. von Vaupel Klein, J. Forest & M. Charmantier-Daures (eds.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology – The Crustacea. Volume 9A  Eucarida: Euphausiacea, Amphionidacea, and Decapoda''. Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-16441-3. PDF.

 Outros artigos 
 Crustáceos
 Decápodos
 Carideos
 Marisco

 Ligazóns externas 
 Parapenaeus en ADW.
 Parapenaeus no SIIT

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