Luciferidae is a family of
prawns. These prawns are small, characterised by
bioluminescence and the loss or reduction of some appendages. They are predators of tiny planktonic crustaceans for which their third
pereiopod is adapted to capture by having thick, curved spines covering the limb. Until recently, the family was thought to be monotypic, but a 2016 cladistic analysis recognized a second genus apart from ''
Lucifer
Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. The entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passa ...
'', named ''
Belzebub
Beelzebub ( ; he, ''Baʿal-zəḇūḇ'') or Beelzebul is a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron, and later adopted by some Abrahamic religions as a major demon. The name ''Beelzebub'' is associated with the Ca ...
''.
References
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Dendrobranchiata
Taxa named by Wilhem de Haan
Decapod families