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 Gammaracanthidae

Gammaracanthus Bate, 1862

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gammaracanthus lacustris Sars, 1867
Gammaracanthus loricatus (Sabine, 1824)

Literature

original description	Bate C.S. 1862. Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Taylor & Francis, London. 399 pp.
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	Nomenclator Zoologicus
additional source	Väinölä R, Vainio JK, Palo JU (2001) Phylogeography of "glacial relict" Gammaracanthus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from boreal lakes and the Caspian and White Seas. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58: 2247-2257.
additional source	Bousfield E.L. (1989). Revised morphological relationships within the amphipod genera Pontoporeia and Gammaracanthus and the "glacial relict" significance of their postglacial distributions. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 46, 10, 1714-1725.

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Citation

Väinölä, R.; Lowry, J. (2014). Gammaracanthus Bate, 1862. 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:101531

Dr Ronald Vonk. Gammaracanthus Bate, 1862. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=240748