Tags: Crustacean.

Callianassa is a genus of mud shrimps in the family Callianassidae. Three of the species in this genus (C. candida C. tyrrhena and C. whitei) have been split off into a new genus Pestarella while others such as Callianassa filholi have been moved to Biffarius.Forty-six species are currently recognised in the genus Callianassa:

class
Malacostraca
family
Callianassidae
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Gebios (Risso 1822), *Montagua (Leach 1814)

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