Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Lysianassida > Parvorder Haustoriidira > Superfamily Haustorioidea > Family Urothoidae

Urothoe Dana, 1852

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Egidia*	A. Costa, 1853	synonym

Children

Urothoe brevicornis Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862
Urothoe corsica Bellan-Santini, 1965
Urothoe elegans Spence Bate, 1857
Urothoe grimaldii Chevreux, 1895
Urothoe hesperiae Conradi, Lopez-Gonzalez & Bellan-Santini, 1995
Urothoe intermedia Bellan-Santini & Ruffo, 1986
Urothoe marina (Spence Bate, 1857)
Urothoe poseidonis Reibish, 1905
Urothoe poucheti Chevreux, 1888
Urothoe pulchella (A. Costa, 1853)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: マルソコエビ属

Literature

original description	Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. Paguridea, continued, Megalopidea and Macroura. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series. 14: 116-125.
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	NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes.
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.
subsequent type designation	Stebbing T.R.R. (1891b). On the genus Urothoe and a new genus Urothoides. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 13, 1, 1-30.

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. Urothoe Dana, 1852. 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:101789