WoRMS taxon details
Astyra Boeck, 1871
101477 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101477)
accepted
Genus
Astyra abyssi Boeck, 1871 (type by monotypy)
Chagosia Walker, 1909 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Parastyra Pirlot, 1934 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Astyra abyssi Boeck, 1871
- Species Astyra antarctica Andres, 1997
- Species Astyra bogorovi Birstein & M. Vinogradov, 1955
- Species Astyra gardineri (Walker, 1909)
- Species Astyra longidactyla (Pirlot, 1934)
- Species Astyra longipes Stephensen, 1933
- Species Astyra mclaughlinae Tandberg & Hughes, 2026
- Species Astyra zenkevitchi Birstein & M. Vinogradov, 1955
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Boeck, A. (1871). Crustacea amphipoda borealia et arctica. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1870: 83-280., available online at https://archive.org/details/crustaceaamphipo00boec [details] 
Etymology “Astyra, a town of Mysia, Mela, Pliny: Strabo calls it a hamlet, near which is a grove of Diana, thence named Astyrena:...
Etymology “Astyra, a town of Mysia, Mela, Pliny: Strabo calls it a hamlet, near which is a grove of Diana, thence named Astyrena: this Astyra is near Adramytrium, and to be distinguished from another near Abydos, which had a gold mine, Strabo. This last was a town of Troas; in ruins in Strabo’s time” (MacBean 1773). Stebbing (1888: 1668) suggested that the name Astyra derives from Αστυρα or Astura, which is the name of a river in Asturia (Spain). [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. (2026). World Amphipoda Database. Astyra Boeck, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101477 on 2026-05-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Boeck, A. (1871). Crustacea amphipoda borealia et arctica. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1870: 83-280., available online at https://archive.org/details/crustaceaamphipo00boec [details]
original description (of Chagosia Walker, 1909) Walker A.O. (1909b). Amphipoda Gammaridea from the Indian Ocean, British East Africa, and the Red Sea. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Zoology, (ser 2) 12, 323-344; pls. 42-43;., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1909.tb00145.x [details]
original description (of Parastyra Pirlot, 1934) Pirlot, J. M. (1934). Les amphipodes de l'expédition du Siboga. Deuxième partie. Les amphipodes gammarides. II. Les amphipodes de la mer profonde. 2. Hyperiopsidae, Pardaliscidae, Astyridae nov. fam., Tironidae, Calliopiidae, Paramphithoidae, Amathillopsidae nov. fam., Eusiridae, Gammaridae, Aoridae, Photidae, Ampithoidae, Jassidae. <em>Siboga-Expeditie.</em> 33d: 167-235, figs 61-100. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Chagosia Walker, 1909) Walker A.O. (1909b). Amphipoda Gammaridea from the Indian Ocean, British East Africa, and the Red Sea. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Zoology, (ser 2) 12, 323-344; pls. 42-43;., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1909.tb00145.x [details]
original description (of Parastyra Pirlot, 1934) Pirlot, J. M. (1934). Les amphipodes de l'expédition du Siboga. Deuxième partie. Les amphipodes gammarides. II. Les amphipodes de la mer profonde. 2. Hyperiopsidae, Pardaliscidae, Astyridae nov. fam., Tironidae, Calliopiidae, Paramphithoidae, Amathillopsidae nov. fam., Eusiridae, Gammaridae, Aoridae, Photidae, Ampithoidae, Jassidae. <em>Siboga-Expeditie.</em> 33d: 167-235, figs 61-100. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [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. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
additional source Andres H.G. (1997). First record of the taxon Astyra Boeck, 1871 from Antarctica (Crustacea, Gammaridea). <em>Mitteilungen aus den Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut,.</em> 94, 81-89. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source d'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Verheye, M. L. (2017). Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 359: 1-553., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.359 [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. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
additional source Andres H.G. (1997). First record of the taxon Astyra Boeck, 1871 from Antarctica (Crustacea, Gammaridea). <em>Mitteilungen aus den Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut,.</em> 94, 81-89. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source d'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Verheye, M. L. (2017). Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 359: 1-553., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.359 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology “Astyra, a town of Mysia, Mela, Pliny: Strabo calls it a hamlet, near which is a grove of Diana, thence named Astyrena: this Astyra is near Adramytrium, and to be distinguished from another near Abydos, which had a gold mine, Strabo. This last was a town of Troas; in ruins in Strabo’s time” (MacBean 1773). Stebbing (1888: 1668) suggested that the name Astyra derives from Αστυρα or Astura, which is the name of a river in Asturia (Spain). [details]Synonymy Chagosia Walker, 1909b: 332. Type species: Chagosia gardineri Walker, 1909b, monotypy; Parastyra Pirlot, 1934: 176. Type species: Parastyra longidactyla Pirlot, 1934, original designation.
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