Amphionides
| Amphionides reynaudii | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Superfamily: | Pandaloidea D. I. Williamson, 1973 |
| Family: | Pandalidae Holthuis, 1955 |
| Genus: | Amphionides Zimmer, 1904 |
| Species: | A. reynaudii |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphionides reynaudii (H. Milne-Edwards, 1833) | |
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Amphionides reynaudii is a species of caridean shrimp, whose identity and position in the crustacean system remained enigmatic for a long time. It is a small (less than one inch long) planktonic crustacean found throughout the world's tropical oceans, which until 2015 was considered the sole representative of the order Amphionidacea, due to unusual morphological features. Molecular data however confirm it as a member of the caridean family Pandalidae, and the confusion of morphology is because only larval phases have so far been studied.
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