Upogebiidae is a family of mud shrimp crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Gebiidea, within the order Decapoda. They are infauna, living their entire adult lives in seafloor burrows. Over 100 species have been identified, with different species often highly specialized for different types of substrate, even including sea sponges or coral.[1] They are filter feeders, although some species also deposit feed.[2]
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| Upogebia deltaura | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Gebiidea |
| Family: | Upogebiidae Borradaile, 1903 |
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Upogebiidae contains the following genera:[3]
- Acutigebia Sakai, 1982
- Aethogebia A. B. Williams, 1993
- Arabigebicula Sakai, 2006
- Austinogebia Ngoc-Ho, 2001
- Gebiacantha Ngoc-Ho, 1989
- Gebicula Alcock, 1901
- Mantisgebia Sakai, 2006
- Neogebicula Sakai, 1982
- Pomatogebia Williams & Ngoc-Ho, 1990
- Tuerkayogebia Sakai, 1982
- Upogebia Leach, 1814
- Wolffogebia Sakai, 1982
References edit
- ^ Williams, Austin B. (1993). "Mud shrimps, Upogebiidae, from the western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinoidea)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 544. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.544.
- ^ VÂNIA R. COELHO; AUSTIN B. WILLIAMS; SÉRGIO A. DE RODRIGUES (December 2000). "Trophic strategies and functional morphology of feeding appendages, with emphasis on setae, of Upogebia omissa and Pomatogebia operculata (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 130 (4): 567–602. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb02202.x.
- ^ "Upogebiidae Borradaile, 1903". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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