Decanet name details
Caricyphus Spence Bate, 1888
589884 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:589884)
uncertain > nomen dubium (Based on a larval stage of an undeterminable species of Oplophoridae or Acanthephyridae)
Genus
Caricyphus gibberosus Spence Bate, 1888 (type by subsequent designation)
- Species Caricyphus acutus Coutière, 1905 (uncertain > nomen dubium, larval stage with no known adult link)
- Species Caricyphus angulatus Spence Bate, 1888 (uncertain > nomen dubium, larval stage with no known adult link)
- Species Caricyphus bigibbosus Coutière, 1905 (uncertain > nomen dubium, larval stage with no known adult link)
- Species Caricyphus cornutus Spence Bate, 1888 (uncertain > nomen dubium, larval stage with no known adult link)
- Species Caricyphus edentulus Ortmann, 1893 (uncertain > nomen dubium, larval stage with no known adult link)
- Species Caricyphus gibberosus Spence Bate, 1888 (uncertain > nomen dubium, larval stage with no known adult link)
- Species Caricyphus serramarginis Spence Bate, 1888 (uncertain > nomen dubium, larval stage with no known adult link)
- Species Caricyphus turgidus Spence Bate, 1888 (uncertain > nomen dubium, larval stage with no known adult link)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bate, C. S. (1888). Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by the Challenger during the years 1873–76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 24 (part 52): i–xc, 1–942, pls. 1–150., available online at http://19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-52/htm/doc.html [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Caricyphus Spence Bate, 1888. Accessed at: https://www.decanet.info/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=589884 on 2025-09-12
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Bate, C. S. (1888). Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by the Challenger during the years 1873–76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 24 (part 52): i–xc, 1–942, pls. 1–150., available online at http://19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-52/htm/doc.html [details]
basis of record De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]