Hippolytidae

Taxobox
name = Hippolytidae


image_caption = "Lysmata debelius"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Caridea
superfamilia = Alpheoidea
familia = Hippolytidae
familia_authority = Dana, 1852
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Hippolytidae is a family of cleaner shrimp, also known as "broken-back shrimp" or "anemone shrimp". The term "broken-back shrimp" also applies to the genus "Hippolyte" in particular and "cleaner shrimp" is sometimes applied exclusively to "Lysmata amboinensis".

Genera

* "Bythocaris"
* "Caridion"
* "Calliasmata"
* "Cryptocheles"
* "Eualus"
* "Exhippolysmata"
* "Gelastocaris"
* "Heptacarpus"
* "Hetairus"
* "Hippolysmata"
* "Hippolyte"
* "Latreutes"
* "Lebbeus"
* "Leontocaris"
* "Leptodius"
* "Ligur"
* "Lysmata"
* "Lysmatella"
* "Merhippolyte"
* "Saron"
* "Spirontocaris"
* "Thor"
* "Thoralus"
* "Tozeuma"
* "Trachycaris"