Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Gammaridea

Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Austropleustinae
Mesopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994
Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994
Parapleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994
Pleustinae Buchholz, 1874
Pleusymtinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994
Stenopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994

Literature

basis of record	Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda, 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. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 295-308
additional source	Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp.
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. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie 77, suppl. 1: 1-325.
additional source	Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (Ed.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp.
identification resource	Bousfield E.L. & Hendrycks E.A. (1994). A revision of the family Pleustidae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea). Part 1. Systematics and Biogeography of Component Subfamilies. Amphipacifica, 1, 1, 17-57.
identification resource	Bousfield E.L. & Hendrycks E.A. (1995). The Amphipod Family Pleustidae on the Pacific Coast of North America. Part III. Subfamilies Parapleustinae, Dactylopleustinae and Pleusirinae: Systematics and Distributional Ecology. Amphipacifica, 2, 1, 65-133.
identification resource	Hendrycks E.A. & Bousfield E.L. (2004). The amphipod family Pleustidae (mainly subfamilies Mesopleustinae, Neopleustinae, Pleusymtinae and Stenopleustinae) from the Pacific coast of North America: systematics and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, 3, 4, pp. 45-113.
identification resource	Bousfield E.L. & Hendrycks E.A. (1994). The Amphipod superfamily Leucothoidea on the Pacific coast of north America. Family Pleustidae: Subfamily Pleustinae. Systematics and Biogeography. Amphipacifica, 1, 2, 3-69.

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Citation

Horton, T.; De Broyer, C. (2014). Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874. 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:101404