RAMS taxon details
Rhachotropis S.I. Smith, 1883
101528 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101528)
accepted
Genus
- Species Rhachotropis abyssalis Lörz, 2010
- Species Rhachotropis anoculata J.L. Barnard, 1962
- Species Rhachotropis antarctica K.H. Barnard, 1932
- Species Rhachotropis hunteri Nicholls, 1938
- Species Rhachotropis kergueleni Stebbing, 1888
- Species Rhachotropis rossi Lörz, 2010
- Species Rhachotropis schellenbergi Andres, 1982
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) 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] 
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. Rhachotropis S.I. Smith, 1883. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/rams./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101528 on 2026-07-03
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Rhachotropis S.I. Smith, 1883. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101528 on 2026-07-03
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(of ) 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]
replacement name source Smith S.I. (1883a). Review of the marine Crustacea of Labrador. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 6, pp. 223-232. [details]
context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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]
identification resource Lörz, A. N. (2010). Deep-sea Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from New Zealand and the Ross Sea with key to the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Antarctic species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2482: 22-48., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2482.1.2 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Corbari, L.; Zuccon, D.; Sorbe, J. C.; Frutos, I. (2024). New bathyal amphipod species (Amphipoda: Eusiridae: Rhachotropis) from southwestern Pacific through integrative taxonomy. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-024-00651-0
note: Key to Rhachotropis species from the bathyal provinces of South West Pacific area [details] Available for editors
replacement name source Smith S.I. (1883a). Review of the marine Crustacea of Labrador. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 6, pp. 223-232. [details]
context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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]
identification resource Lörz, A. N. (2010). Deep-sea Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from New Zealand and the Ross Sea with key to the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Antarctic species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2482: 22-48., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2482.1.2 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Corbari, L.; Zuccon, D.; Sorbe, J. C.; Frutos, I. (2024). New bathyal amphipod species (Amphipoda: Eusiridae: Rhachotropis) from southwestern Pacific through integrative taxonomy. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-024-00651-0
note: Key to Rhachotropis species from the bathyal provinces of South West Pacific area [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhachotropis)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (6 traits)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhachotropis)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (6 traits)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Image from typetaxon
Image from typetaxon
