RAMS taxon details
Parapherusa Stebbing, 1906
236880 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236880)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
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. Parapherusa Stebbing, 1906. 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://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236880 on 2026-08-09
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Parapherusa Stebbing, 1906. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236880 on 2026-08-09
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Stebbing T.R.R. (1906). Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. <em>Das Tiereich.</em> 21, 1-806, 127 figs., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/998303#page/7/mode/1up [details] 
basis of record 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]
status source Springthorpe, R. T. (2026). The Melitidae redefined and a review of the genera and species from the southern Indo-Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Hadzioidea, Melitidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5765(1): 1-108., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5765.1.1
note: Parapherusa Stebbing, 1906 is excluded from Melitidae because antenna 1 is shorter than antenna 2, spines and setae are absent on urosomite 2, uropod 3 is equiramous and the telson is entire. Lowry & ...
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basis of record 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]
status source Springthorpe, R. T. (2026). The Melitidae redefined and a review of the genera and species from the southern Indo-Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Hadzioidea, Melitidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5765(1): 1-108., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5765.1.1
note: Parapherusa Stebbing, 1906 is excluded from Melitidae because antenna 1 is shorter than antenna 2, spines and setae are absent on urosomite 2, uropod 3 is equiramous and the telson is entire. Lowry & ...
Parapherusa Stebbing, 1906 is excluded from Melitidae because antenna 1 is shorter than antenna 2, spines and setae are absent on urosomite 2, uropod 3 is equiramous and the telson is entire. Lowry & Myers (2013) placed Parapherusa in the Maeridae, however, this strange genus also has affinities with the Nuuanuidae Lowry & Myers, 2013, and for the present should be referred to as incerta sedis.
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
