{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic Taxobox | name = ''Typhlocaris'' | image = Typhlocaris galilea - plate from Transactions of the Linnean Society of London - CROP.jpg | image_caption = ''T. galilea'' (male). Plate from Calman, 1909 | parent_authority = [[Nelson Annandale|Annandale]] & Kemp, 1913 | taxon = Typhlocaris | authority = [[William Thomas Calman|Calman]], 1909 | display_parents = 3 | type_species = ''[[Typhlocaris galilea]]'' | type_species_authority = Calman, 1909 }}
'''''Typhlocaris''''' is a [[genus]] of blind [[troglobite|cave-dwelling]] [[Caridea|shrimp]],<ref name="Tsurnamal">{{cite journal |title=A new species of the stygobiotic blind prawn ''Typhlocaris'' Calman, 1909 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae, Typhlocaridinae) from Israel |author=M. Tsurnamal |journal=[[Crustaceana]] |volume=81 |issue=4 |year=2008 |pages=487–501 |doi=10.1163/156854008783797534}}</ref> placed in its own family, '''Typhlocarididae'''. It contains 4 species:<ref name="Tsurnamal"/><ref>{{cite journal |title=The biology and ecology of the blind prawn, ''Typhlocaris galilea'' Calman (Decapoda, Caridea) |author=M. Tsurnamal |journal=[[Crustaceana]] |volume=34 |issue=2 |year=1978 |pages=195–213 |jstor=20103268 |doi=10.1163/156854078X00736}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |author=[[William Thomas Calman|W. T. Calman]] |year=1909 |title=On a blind Prawn from the Sea of Galilee (''Typhlocaris galilea'', g. et sp. n.) |journal=[[Transactions of the Linnean Society of London]] |series=2nd ser., Zoology |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=93–97 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1909.tb00194.x |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16393586/}}</ref>
*''[[Typhlocaris ayyaloni]]'' <small>Tsurnamal, 2008</small> – Israel *''[[Typhlocaris galilea]]'' <small>Calman, 1909</small> – Israel *''[[Typhlocaris lethaea]]'' <small>Parisi, 1920</small> – Libya *''[[Typhlocaris salentina]]'' <small>Caroli, 1923</small> – Apulia (Italy)
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[[Category:Palaemonoidea]] [[Category:Cave shrimp]]
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