Gennadas is a genus of shrimps in the family Benthesicymidae.

Gennadas
Gennadas tinayrei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Family: Benthesicymidae
Genus: Gennadas
Bate, 1881[1]
Species

Several, including:

Synonyms
  • Amalopenaeus Smith, 1882
  • Pasiphodes Filhol, 1885

Some species may occur at higher latitudes. For instance, collections of Gennadas kempi have been made as far south as 61° south in the Antarctic Ocean.

References

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  1. ^ On the Penaeidea. CS Bate, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1881
  • Vertical distribution and feeding of the shrimp genera Gennadas and Bentheogennema (Decapoda: Penaeidea) in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. JJ Heffernan, TL Hopkins, Journal of Crustacean Biology, 1981
  • Sur les Gennadas ou Pénéides bathypélagiques. EL Bouvier, Bulletin du Musée Océanographique de Monaco, 1906
  • The eyes of mesopelagic crustaceans: I. Gennadas sp.(Penaeidae). VB Meyer-Rochow, S Walsh, Cell and Tissue Research, 1977
  • Hendrickx, M.E. 2015: Further records of species of Gennadas (Crustacea, Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Benthesicymidae) in the Mexican Pacific. Zootaxa 3980(3), pages 417–426, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.5
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