Pariambus Stebbing 1888

Caprellid, "Ghost" or "Skeleton" shrimps, so called for their skeletal appearance. Amphipod crustaceans, easily distinguished by the elongate stick-like body form and reduction of the abdominal appendages. Head is generally fused with pereonite 1. Pereopods on first 2 segments (pereonites) are most flexible and called gnathopods; gnathopods 2 being the largest, used in defense, feeding and substrate attachment. In many species pereopods 3 and 4 may also be reduced or absent. Gills on pereonites 3 + 4, rarely on pereonite 2. Pereopods 5 - 7 much smaller than 1 + 2, used for clinging to the substratum. In females, brood plates (öostegites) develop on pereonites 3 + 4. Much remains to be learnt about their biology, ecology and in many cases changing distributions."Caprellid, "Ghost" or "Skeleton" shrimps, so called for their skeletal appearance. Amphipod crustaceans, easily distinguished by the elongate stick-like body form and reduction of the abdominal appendages. Head is generally fused with pereonite 1. Pereopods on first 2 segments (pereonites) are most flexible and called gnathopods; gnathopods 2 being the largest, used in defense, feeding and substrate attachment. In many species pereopods 3 and 4 may also be reduced or absent. Gills on pereonites 3 + 4, rarely on pereonite 2. Pereopods 5 - 7 much smaller than 1 + 2, used for clinging to the substratum. In females, brood plates (öostegites) develop on pereonites 3 + 4. Much remains to be learnt about their biology, ecology and in many cases changing distributions.

Pariambus is a genus of amphipod crustaceans comprising the two species Pariambus typicus and Pariambus minutus.

Pariambus er en av i alt minst 88 slekter innenfor familien av spøkelseskreps, en type tanglopper som er maritime krepsdyr.

Larvene er planktoniske. Voksne individer er ofte små - de har to store antenner og to små antenner. Denne slekten tilhører muligens underfamilien Caprellinae (Leach, 1814), selv om en slik gruppering er omstridt og lite sikker. Det er flere måter å fremstille fylogenien over denne gruppen, som kan defineres inn i enten en overfamilie eller familie.

Slekten består (2013) av bare to anerkjente arter.

Arten Pariambus typicus er observert ved nordvestkysten av Rogaland og i Sunnhordland.