Sinocorophium
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Sinocorophium is a genus of amphipod
crustacean
s, comprising the following species:
Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. The name amphipoda means "different-footed", and refers to the different forms of appendages, unlike isopods, where all the legs are alike. Of the 7,000 species, 5,500 are classified...
crustacean
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
s, comprising the following species:
- Sinocorophium alienense (Chapman, 1988)
- Sinocorophium heteroceratumSinocorophium heteroceratumSinocorophium heteroceratum is a species of amphipod crustacean. It naturally occurs in Southeast Asia, but was introduced to San Francisco Bay, probably carried in the ballast water of cargo ships....
Yu, 1938) - Sinocorophium homoceratum (Yu, 1938)
- Sinocorophium intermedium (Ngoc, 1965)
- Sinocorophium japonicum (Hirayama, 1984)
- Sinocorophium lamellatum (Hirayama, 1984)
- Sinocorophium minutum (Ngoc, 1965)
- Sinocorophium monospinum (Shen, 1955)
- Sinocorophium sinensis (Zhang, 1974)
- Sinocorophium triangulopedarum (Hirayama, 1986)