Amphipoda taxon details
original description
Kamaltynov, R.M. (2001). Amfipody (Amphipoda: Gammaroidea). In: Timoshkin, O.A. (ed.) Annotirovannyi spisok fauny ozera Baikal i ego vodosbornogo basseina. Tom I: Ozero Baikal. Kniga 1 [Index of animal species inhabiting Lake Baikal and its catchment area. Vol. I: Lake Baikal. Book 1]. <em>Nauka, Novosibirsk.</em> pp. 572-831. page(s): 804 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Lowry, J. K.; Myers, A. A. (2013). A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3610(1): 1-80., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03610p080.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis "Like Micruropodinae and Carinogammarinae but distinguished by the body shape, anteriorly expanded and with thin, elongate pleon and urosome segments, very large reniform eyes, large gnathopods of males, weak pereopods, peculiar shape of pereopod bases and uropod 3 (with extremely long peduncle)." [details]
Status Retained as a part of Micruropodidae in the checklist of Takhteev et al. (2015). Treated as part of the revised Gammaridae by Hou & Li (2016). [details]
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