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Upogebiidae






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Upogebiidae
Upogebia deltaura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Gebiidea
Family: Upogebiidae
Borradaile, 1903
Genera

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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 spongesorcoral.[1] They are filter feeders, although some species also deposit feed.[2]

Upogebiidae contains the following genera:[3]

References

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  1. ^ 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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