Potamalpheops is a genus of shrimp in the family Alpheidae. It was originally erected by Powell in 1979 to house species from Africa.[1] Later, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. realised that the troglobitic shrimp he had described in 1973 from Oaxaca, Mexico as Alpheopsis stygicola, also belonged to the genus,[1] and in 1991, A. J. Bruce described a new species from Australia, further expanding the genus' geographical range.[2] It is now thought to represent a relict taxon from the Tethys Sea.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Alpheidae |
| Genus: | Potamalpheops Powell, 1979 |
The following species are currently accepted as valid:[3]
- Potamalpheops amnicus Yeo & Ng, 1997
- Potamalpheops darwiniensis Bruce, 1993
- Potamalpheops galle Anker, 2005
- Potamalpheops hanleyi Bruce, 1991
- Potamalpheops haugi (Coutière, 1906)
- Potamalpheops johnsoni Anker, 2003
- Potamalpheops kisi Marin, 2021
- Potamalpheops miyai Yeo & Ng, 1997
- Potamalpheops monodi (Sollaud, 1932)
- Potamalpheops nazgul Christodoulou, Iliffe & De Grave, 2019
- Potamalpheops palawensis Cai & Anker, 2004
- Potamalpheops pininsulae Bruce & Iliffe, 1992
- Potamalpheops pylorus Powell, 1979
- Potamalpheops stygicola (Hobbs, 1973)
- Potamalpheops tigger Yeo & Ng, 1997
- Potamalpheops tyrymembe Soledade, Santos & Almeida, 2014
References
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- ^ a b Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (1983). "The African shrimp genus Potamalpheops in Mexico (Decapoda, Alpheidae)". Crustaceana. 44 (2): 221–224. doi:10.1163/156854083x00848. JSTOR 20103823.
- ^ a b A. J. Bruce (1991). "The "African" shrimp genus Potamalpheops in Australia, with the description of P. hanleyi, new species (Decapoda: Alpheidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 11 (4): 629–638. doi:10.2307/1548531. JSTOR 1548531.
- ^ de Mazancourt, Valentin (2022). "Potamalpheops Powell, 1979". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2023-06-18.