''Pseudosquillopsis'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
mantis shrimp
Mantis shrimp are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda (). Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago, with more than 520 extant species of mantis shrimp known. All li ...
in the
family
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Parasquillidae
Parasquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp containing the three genera '' Faughnia'', '' Parasquilla'' and '' Pseudosquillopsis''. It was previously included in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea, but that group was found to be paraphyletic
P ...
.
Species
Species in the genus include:
* ''
Pseudosquillopsis cerisii''
(Roux, 1828)
* ''
Pseudosquillopsis dofleini''
(Balss, 1910)
* ''
Pseudosquillopsis lessonii''
(Guérin, 1830)
* ''
Pseudosquillopsis marmorata''
(Lockington, 1877)
References
Stomatopoda
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