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 Oedicerotidira > Superfamily Oedicerotoidea > Family Oedicerotidae

Westwoodilla Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Westwoodia*	Spence Bate, 1857	junior homonym
*Halimedon*	Boeck, 1871	synonym

Children

Westwoodilla brevicalcar (Goës, 1866)
Westwoodilla caecula (Spence Bate, 1857)
Westwoodilla helle Jansen, 2002
Westwoodilla megalops (G.O. Sars, 1883)
Westwoodilla rectirostris (Della Valle, 1893)

Literature

original description	Bate, C. S. & J. O. Westwood. (1861-1863). A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Vol. 1. John Van Voorst, London. 507 pp.
additional source	Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum Natural History: London. i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Lincoln, R. J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History). 658 pp.
replacement name source	Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum Natural History: London. i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58.

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. Westwoodilla Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862. 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:101705