Palaemon

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Palaemon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Palaemonidae – certain shrimps, some called grass shrimp.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Eucarida – superorder; Decapoda – order; Pleocyemata – suborder; Caridea – infraorder; Palaemonoidea – superfamily; Palaemonidae – family; Palaemoninae – subfamily

• (genus): Palaemon adspersus - type species; Palaemon pugio (daggerblade grass shrimp), Palaemon serratus (common prawn), Palaemon varians - selected other species

• Palaemon (crustacean) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Palaemon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Palaemonetes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From the Ancient Greek Παλαίμων (Palaímōn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paˈɫae̯.moːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈlɛː.mon]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paˈɫae̯.mɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈlɛː.mon]

Palaemō̆n m sg (genitive Palaemō̆nis or Palaemō̆nos); third declension

1. Palaemon, a sea god who was the son of Athamus and Ino

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

• “Palaemon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press