WoRMS taxon details
Alicella Chevreux, 1899
488207 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:488207)
accepted
Genus
Alicella gigantea Chevreux, 1899 (type by monotypy)
- Species Alicella gigantea Chevreux, 1899
- Species Alicella scotiae Chilton, 1912 accepted as Eurythenes obesus (Chevreux, 1905) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Chevreux, E. (1899). Sur deux espèces géantes d'amphipodes provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse Alice. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 24, 152-158; figs. 1-6. [details] 
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Alicella Chevreux, 1899. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=488207 on 2025-06-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Chevreux, E. (1899). Sur deux espèces géantes d'amphipodes provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse Alice. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 24, 152-158; figs. 1-6. [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
De Broyer, C.; Thurston, M. H. (1987). New Atlantic material and redescription of the type specimens of the giant abyssal amphipod Alicella gigantea Chevreux (Crustacea). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 16(4): 335-350. [details] Available for editors 
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Jamieson, A.; Lacey, N.; Lörz, A.-N.; Rowden, A.; Piertney, S. (2013). The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea (Crustacea: Alicellidae) from hadal depths in the Kermadec Trench, SW Pacific Ocean. <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 92: 107-113., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.12.002 [details] Available for editors [request]
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| Japanese | ダイダラボッチ属 | [details] |
