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Amphipoda 
AphiaID: 1135

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder)
Authority Latreille, 1816
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Peracarida
Sources  basis of record: Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: De Broyer C., Lowry J.K., Jazdzewski K. & Robert H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details] [full text]

additional source: Barnard J.L. & Karaman G.S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Part 1 Rec. Aust. Mus., Suppl. 13(1): 1–417 , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.13.1991.91 [details]

identification resource: Barnard J.L. & Karaman G.S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Part 1 Rec. Aust. Mus., Suppl. 13(1): 1–417 , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.13.1991.91 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch vlokreeften  [details]
English amphipods  [details]
Swedish märlkräftor  [details]
Direct child
taxa		 Suborder Amphipoda incertae sedis
Suborder Gammaridea
Suborder Hyperiidea
Suborder Ingolfiellidea
Suborder Senticaudata

Suborder Caprellidea accepted as Caprelloidea
Suborder Corophiidea accepted as Corophiida
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Images 
Amphipoda 1
Amphipoda 1
added on 2006-07-27 - author: Stefano Schiaparelli
qualitystatus: checked by De Broyer, Claude on 2013-03-29 09:33:49

Amphipoda 2
Amphipoda 2
added on 2006-07-27 - author: Stefano Schiaparelli
qualitystatus: checked by De Broyer, Claude on 2013-03-29 09:34:08

Amphipod
Amphipod
added on 2007-06-01 - author: Danis, Bruno
qualitystatus: checked by De Broyer, Claude on 2013-03-29 09:34:23

New amphipod species
New amphipod species
added on 2007-06-01 - author: Danis, Bruno
qualitystatus: checked by De Broyer, Claude on 2013-03-29 09:34:17

Amphipod
Amphipod
added on 2007-06-01 - author: Danis, Bruno
qualitystatus: checked by De Broyer, Claude on 2013-03-29 09:34:32

cf. Amphipoda Latreille, 1816
cf. Amphipoda Latreille, 1816
added on 2007-11-29 - author: Philippart, Catharina
qualitystatus: not checked

Amphipoda sp.
Amphipoda sp.
added on 2011-10-31 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: checked by De Broyer, Claude on 2013-03-29 09:35:09
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1135
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-15 11:27:57Z  changed  Costello, Mark
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Amphipoda. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1135 on 2013-05-26
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