Belgian Register of Marine Species - Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894)

BeRMS taxon details

Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894)
AphiaID: 148586

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Malacostraca > Eumalacostraca > Peracarida > Amphipoda > Senticaudata > Gammarida > Gammaridira > Gammaroidea > Gammaridae > Dikerogammarus

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Dikerogammarus Stebbing, 1899

Source

basis of record: Faasse, M.; Van Moorsel, G. (2000). Nieuwe en minder bekende vlokreeftjes van sublitorale harde bodems in het Deltagebied (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) [New and lesser-known amphipods of hard substrates in the Delta area of the Netherlands (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea)]. Ned. Faunist. Meded. 11: 19-44 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	reuzenvlokreeft	[details]
English	killer shrimp	[details]
Ukrainian	Бокоплав опушений	[details]

Environment

brackish, fresh

Distribution

Bergse Diepsluis [details]
Elbe [details]
Haringvliet [details]
Hellevoetsluis [details]
Millingen [details]
Ooltgensplaat [details]
Rijn [details]
Speelmansplaten [details]
Stellendam [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Volkerak [details]
Zuiderdiep [details]

Feedingtypes

omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]

Links

Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI

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