Spongicolidae Explained

Spongicolidae is a family of glass sponge shrimp in the order Decapoda. There are about 8 genera and more than 40 described species in Spongicolidae. Apart from the shallows-dwelling genus Microprosthema, the family consists of glass sponge infauna, living within the body cavity of the sponge, presumably for life with a few other sponge shrimp. The sponge infaunal species most often inhabit Euplectella sponges, but can be found in Hyalonema sieboldii, Dactylocalyx pumiceus, Regradella phoenix, and R. okinosena.^[1]

Genera

These eight genera belong to the family Spongicolidae:

• Engystenopus Alcock & Anderson, 1894
• Globospongicola Komai & Saito, 2006
• Microprosthema Stimpson, 1860
• Paraspongicola de Saint Laurent & Cleva, 1981
• Spongicola de Haan, 1844
• Spongicoloides Hansen, 1908
• Spongiocaris Bruce & Baba, 1973
• † Jilinicaris Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000

Further reading

• Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States. 2003. Nizinski . Martha S.. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116. 1. 96–157. 0006-324X.
• Phylogenetic systematics of the reptantian Decapoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca). 1995. Scholtz . Gerhard. Richter . Stefan. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113. 3. 289–328. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00936.x.
• Book: A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca. 1893. Stebbing . Thomas Roscoe Rede. D. Appleton.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Saito . Tomomi . 2003 . Phylogeny of the family Spongicolidae (Crustacea: Stenopodidea): evolutionary trend from shallow-water free-living to deep-water sponge-associated habitat . 23 August 2024 . researchgate.net.