Syncaris

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Syncarispacificaone.jpg | image_caption = ''Syncaris pacifica'' | taxon = Syncaris | authority = Holmes, 1900 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''Syncaris pacifica''<br />{{extinct}}''Syncaris pasadenae'' }}

'''''Syncaris''''' is a genus of shrimp, containing only two species: the endangered California freshwater shrimp, ''Syncaris pacifica'', and the extinct Pasadena freshwater shrimp, ''Syncaris pasadenae''.<ref name=WoRMS/><ref name=":0">{{cite journal |author=Joel W. Martin & Mary K. Wicksten |year=2004 |title=Review and redescription of the freshwater atyid shrimp genus ''Syncaris'' Holmes, 1900, in California |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=447–462 |jstor=1549592 |doi=10.1651/C-2451|doi-access=free }}</ref> This genus is one of only two genera of freshwater Atyid shrimp found in North America, with the other being the genus ''Palaemonias'', which contains two endangered, cave-dwelling shrimp species.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Hedgpeth |first=Joel W. |date=1968 |title=The atyid shrimp of the genus ''Syncaris'' in California |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/iroh.19680530402 |journal=Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=511–524 |doi=10.1002/iroh.19680530402|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The genus ''Syncaris'' may have arisen during the Mesozoic, with the family Atyidae likely being of Jurassic origin.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |title=''Syncaris'' Holmes, 1900 |year=2023 |id=586736 |db=DecaNet |access-date=18 August 2023}}</ref> }}

Category:Atyidae Category:Freshwater crustaceans of North America Category:Endemic fauna of California Category:Decapod genera