''Rissoides'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
mantis shrimp
Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda (). Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 340 million years ago. Mantis shrimp typically grow to around in length ...
. It is named after
Antoine Risso
Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard and naturalist.
Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published ' (1810), ' (182 ...
, and includes the following species:
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Rissoides africanus
''Rissoides'' is a genus of mantis shrimp. It is named after Antoine Risso, and includes the following species:
*'' Rissoides africanus'' (Manning, 1974)
*'' Rissoides barnardi'' (Manning, 1975)
*'' Rissoides calypso'' (Manning, 1974)
*''Rissoide ...
''
(Manning, 1974)
*''
Rissoides barnardi''
(Manning, 1975)
*''
Rissoides calypso''
(Manning, 1974)
*''
Rissoides desmaresti
''Rissoides desmaresti'' is a species of mantis shrimp native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
Distribution
''R. desmaresti'' is one of only two species of stomatopod found around the British Isles, and one of twelve species ...
''
(Risso, 1816)
*''
Rissoides pallidus''
(Giesbrecht, 1910)
References
Stomatopoda
Taxa named by Raymond B. Manning
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