Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Amphilochida > Parvorder Amphilochidira > Superfamily Amphilochoidea > Family Cressidae

Cressa Boeck, 1871

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Danaia*	Spence Bate, 1857	junior homonym

Children

Cressa abyssicola G.O. Sars, 1879
Cressa carinata Stephensen, 1931
Cressa cristata Myers, 1969
Cressa dubia (Spence Bate, 1857)
Cressa mediterranea Ruffo, 1979
Cressa minuta Boeck, 1871
Cressa quinquedentata Stephensen, 1931

Literature

original description	Boeck, A. (1871). Crustacea amphipoda borealia et arctica. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. 1870: 83-280.
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.
identification resource	Krapp-Schickel, T. (2005). Cressidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) collected by the BIOFAR and BIOICE programmes near the Faroes and Iceland (N-Atlantic). BIOFAR Proceedings. 2005: 150-166.

Genbank

Citation

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. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Cressa Boeck, 1871. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101494