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WoRMS taxon details

Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881

AphiaID

1562 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1562)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Ascorhynchoidea Pocock, 1904

Synonymised names

Acheliidae · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Direct children (25)
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Genus Achelia Hodge, 1864
Genus Acheliana Arnaud, 1971
Genus Ammothea Leach, 1814
Genus Ammothella Verrill, 1900
Genus Austroraptus Hodgson, 1907
Genus Cilunculus Loman, 1908
Genus Dromedopycnon Child, 1982
Genus Elassorhis Child, 1982
Genus Hedgpethius Child, 1974
Genus Hemichela Stock, 1954
Genus Megarhethus Child, 1982
Genus Neotrygaeus Munilla & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2014
Genus Nymphopsis Haswell, 1884
Genus Oorhynchus Hoek, 1881
Genus Paranymphon Caullery, 1896
Genus Proboehmia Stock, 1991
Genus Prototrygaeus Stock, 1975
Genus Scipiolus Loman, 1908
Genus Sericosura Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969
Genus Tanystylum Miers, 1879
Genus Teratonotum Sabroux, Corbari, Krapp, Bonillo, Le Prieur & Hassanin, 2017

Genus Anisopes Turpaeva, 1998 accepted as Sericosura Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969 (Not considered generically distinct)
Genus Biammothea Pushkin, 1993 accepted as Ammothea Leach, 1814
Genus Corniger Böhm, 1879 accepted as Ammothea Leach, 1814 (Junior synonym)
Genus Trygaeus Dohrn, 1881 accepted as Neotrygaeus Munilla & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2014 (unaccepted > junior homonym, invalid: junior homonym of Trygaeus Sharp, 1874; Neotrygaeus is a replacement name)

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Bamber, R.N.; El Nagar, A.; Arango, C.P. (Eds) (2023). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database. Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1562 on 2023-03-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2008-12-31 17:13:17Z

changed

Bamber, Roger

2009-01-04 09:46:42Z

changed

Bamber, Roger

Licensing

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basis of record Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

identification resource Child C.A. (1994). Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida. 1. The family Ammotheidae. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXIII. , 1-48., available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/ar063p0001 [details]

identification resource Child C.A. (1994). Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida. 2. The family Austrodecidae. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXIII. , 49-99., available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/ar063p0049 [details]

identification resource Bamber, Roger N. (2009). Two new species of <i>Sericosura</i> Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969 (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida: Ammotheidae), and a reassessment of the genus. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2140: 56-68., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2140.1.7 [details] Available for editors