| Paracrangon | |
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| P. echinada | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Crangonidae |
| Genus: | Paracrangon Dana, 1852 |
| Type species | |
| Paracrangon echinada Dana, 1852
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Paracrangon is a genus of deep-sea shrimp in the family Crangonidae, found on the Pacific coasts of North America, Asia, and Australia.[1] Morphologically, they are notable for several autapomorphies, most significantly their unique lack of second pereopods, but also for their partially flexible abdomen, which allows them to assume their defensive cataleptic posture.[2][3][4] Species also have long spines covering their carapace.[5][6] They are distinctive among the Crangonid shrimp, and are almost certainly monophyletic.[2] All species except Paracrangon echinata, the type species, are quite rare.[2]
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- ^ a b c Komai, Tomoyuki; Kim, Jyung Nyun (2004-12-30). "Shrimps of the crangonid genus Paracrangon Dana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the northwestern Pacific: taxonomic review and description of a new species from Japan". Scientia Marina. 68 (4): 511–536. doi:10.3989/scimar.2004.68n4511. ISSN 1886-8134.
- ^ "Paracrangon echinata Dana 1852 - Plazi TreatmentBank". treatment.plazi.org. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
- ^ Lamb, Andy; Hanby, Bernard P. (2005). Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest. Canada: Harbour Publishing. p. 287. ISBN 1-55017-361-8.
- ^ Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of (1895). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Vol. 47. Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
- ^ Museum Victoria; Victoria, Museum; Victoria, Museum (1999). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. Vol. 57. Melbourne: Museum Victoria.