Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Gammarida > Subsection Gammaridira > Superfamily Gammaroidea > Family Gammaridae > Genus Dikerogammarus

Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Gammarus Fabricius, 1775

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dikerogammarus*	Stebbing, 1899	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Gammarus villosus*	Sowinsky, 1894	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: reuzenvlokreeft sources: Vercauteren, Th.; Sablon, R.; Wouters, K. (2006). Exotische ongewervelden in vijvers en grachten van het Provinciaal Groendomein Prinsenpark in Retie: een eerste bilan, in: Nieuwborg, H. et al. (Ed.) (2006). Natuurstudie in de provincie Antwerpen: Antwerpse Koepel voor Natuurstudie (ANKONA) Jaarboek 2004-2005. pp. 27-39

English: killer shrimp sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: Killer Shrimp sources: Charles Hussey

Ukrainian: Бокоплав опушений

Literature

basis of record	Faasse, M.; Van Moorsel, G. (2000). Nieuwe en minder bekende vlokreeftjes van sublitorale harde bodems in het Deltagebied (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) [New and lesser-known amphipods of hard substrates in the Delta area of the Netherlands (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea)]. Ned. Faunist. Meded. 11: 19-44

Taxon found in 12 publications.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (31 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Lowry, J. (2014). Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894). In: Horton, T.; Lowry, J. & De Broyer, C. (2013 onwards) World Amphipoda Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148586

Dr Ronald Vonk. Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=240668