WoRMS taxon details
Callianassa subterranea (Montagu, 1808)
AphiaID: 107729
AphiaID: 107729
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Axiidea (Infraorder) > Callianassidae (Family) > Callianassinae (Subfamily) > Callianassa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Callianassa Leach, 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Callianassa helgolandica Lutze, 1938 (junior synonym) Cancer (Astacus) subterraneus Montagu, 1808 (genus change) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Montagu G. (1808). Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society, London, 9, pp. 81-114;pls. 2-8., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13719# [details] basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] from synonym: Lutze, J. (1938) Ueber Systematik, Entwicklung und Oekologie von Callianassa. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen, 1, 162-199. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Callianassa subterranea australis Kensley, 1974 accepted as Callianassa australis Kensley, 1974 Subspecies Callianassa subterranea japonica Ortmann, 1891 accepted as Nihonotrypaea japonica (Ortmann, 1891) Subspecies Callianassa subterranea minor Gourret, 1887 accepted as Gourretia denticulata (Lutze, 1937) Subspecies Callianassa subterranea pontica Czerniavsky, 1884 accepted as Pestarella candida (Olivi, 1792) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North Africa [details] North Sea [details] South Coast of England [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | deposit feeder: surface [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Giardella callianassae Canu, 1888 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | BIOTIC To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (174 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Callianassa shrimps are burrowing, deposit-feeding crustaceans that live in complex burrow systems. These burrows have numerous galleries and chambers and are connected to the surface by a tube. The burrows are found down to a depth of about 50 cm in marine soft sediments (Witbaard & Duineveld, 1989).
Habitat: In the Dutch part of the North Sea this decapod is mainly found at the Oyster Ground, an area with very fine sediments containing a high amount of silt. Pure sand seems to be avoided (Adema et al., 1982; Witbaard & Duineveld, 1989). It is a dominant species at the Oyster Ground and shows the highest density and biomass in the area of the Frisian Front. [details] Morphology: Callianassidae are decapod shrimps with a large pincher on just one of the front legs. They are superficially similar to lobsters. C. subterranea is one of the smaller species of the family. it can reach up to 46 mm overall length. Its rostrum is minute. lts colour is pale puce, but sometimes quite dark (Lutze, 1938; Hayward & Ryland, 1990). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107729 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Türkay, M. (2013). Callianassa subterranea (Montagu, 1808). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107729 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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