''Rissoides'' 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 ...
. It is named after
Antoine Risso
Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a naturalist from Nice.
Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published ' (1810), ' (1826) an ...
, and includes the following species:
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Rissoides africanus''
(Manning, 1974)
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Rissoides barnardi''
(Manning, 1975)
*''
Rissoides calypso''
(Manning, 1974)
*''
Rissoides desmaresti''
(Risso, 1816)
*''
Rissoides pallidus''
(Giesbrecht, 1910)
References
Stomatopoda
Taxa named by Raymond B. Manning
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