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

Amphipoda Latreille, 1816

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Amphipoda incertae sedis
Gammaridea Latreille, 1802
Hyperiidea Milne Edwards, 1830
Ingolfiellidea Hansen, 1903
Senticaudata Lowry & Myers, 2013

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: vlokreeften sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: amphipods

English-United States: amphipods sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: märlkräftor

Literature

basis of record	Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp.
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	Barnard J.L. & Karaman G.S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Part 1 Rec. Aust. Mus., Suppl. 13(1): 1–417
identification resource	Barnard J.L. & Karaman G.S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Part 2. Rec. Aust. Mus., Suppl. 13(2): 419–866
identification resource	Barnard J.L. & Karaman G.S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Part 1 Rec. Aust. Mus., Suppl. 13(1): 1–417

Genbank

External Links

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Amphipoda. 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:1135