{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{For|the taxon of shrimp described by Weber, 1795|Alpheus (crustacean)}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Crangon crangon.jpg | image_caption = ''Crangon crangon'' | taxon = Crangon | authority = Fabricius, 1798<br />[''non'' Weber, 1795] | type_species = ''Crangon crangon'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS"/> | synonyms = *''Bannikovia'' <small>Garassino & Teruzzi, 1996</small> *''Crago'' <small>Lamarck, 1801</small> *''Crangon (Crangon)'' <small>Fabricius, 1798</small> *''Crangonus'' <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> *''Longitergite'' <small>Garassino & Teruzzi, 1996</small> *''Steiracrangon'' <small>Kinahan, 1862</small> }}
'''''Crangon''''' is a genus of shrimp.
==Distribution== ''Crangon'' species are found exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere, with most of the species occurring in the northern Pacific Ocean.<ref name=Campos>{{cite journal|author=Joana Campos|author2=Cláudia Moreira|author3=Fabiana Freitas|author4=Henk W. van der Veer|name-list-style=amp|year=2012|title=Short review of the eco-geography of ''Crangon''|journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=32|issue=2|pages=159–169|doi=10.1163/193724011X615569|doi-access=free}}</ref> ''C. septemspinosa'' is the only species in the genus to occur in the north-western Atlantic Ocean, while in the north-eastern Atlantic, ''C. crangon'' and ''C. allmani'' occur.<ref name=Campos/> With the exception of the important commercial species ''C. crangon'', however, the distributions of ''Crangon'' species are poorly characterised.<ref name=Campos/> The greater number of species in the Pacific Ocean is thought to indicate that the genus originated in the Pacific.<ref name=Campos/>
==Species== ''Crangon'' contains the following extant species:<ref name="Carideorum">{{cite journal |author=S. De Grave |author2=C. H. J. M. Fransen |name-list-style=amp |year=2011 |title=Carideorum Catalogus: the Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) |journal=Zoologische Mededelingen |volume=85 |issue=9 |pages=195–589, figs. 1–59 |isbn=978-90-6519-200-4 |url=http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/85/nr02/a01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121220093841/http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/85/nr02/a01 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-20 }}</ref><ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |year=2026 |title=''Crangon'' Fabricius, 1798 |id=107007 |access-date=30 April 2026 |db=DecaNet}}</ref>
{{Linked species list | Crangon affinis | De Haan, 1849 | Crangon alaskensis | Lockington, 1877 | Crangon alba | Holmes, 1900 | Crangon allmani | Kinahan, 1860 | Crangon amurensis | Bražnikov, 1907 | Crangon capensis | Stimpson, 1860 | Crangon cassiope | De Man, 1906 | Crangon crangon | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Crangon dalli | Rathbun, 1902 | Crangon franciscorum | Stimpson, 1856 | Crangon hakodatei | Rathbun, 1902 | Crangon handi | Kuris & Carlton, 1977 | Crangon holmesi | Rathbun, 1902 | Crangon lockingtonii | Holmes, 1904 | † Crangon miocenicus | (Garassino & Teruzzi, 1996) | Crangon nigricauda | Stimpson, 1856 | Crangon nigromaculata | Lockington, 1877 | Crangon propinquus | Stimpson, 1860 | Crangon septemspinosa | Say, 1818 | Crangon uritai | Hayashi & J. N. Kim, 1999 }}
A further two species are known from the fossil record.<ref name="Grave">{{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-06 }}</ref>
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Category:Crangonidae Category:Decapod genera Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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