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

Lophogastrida Boas, 1883

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Eucopiidae G.O. Sars, 1885
Gnathophausiidae Udrescu, 1984
Lophogastridae G.O. Sars, 1870

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: lophogastrids; opossom shrimp; opossum shrimps sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: opossum shrimps sources: Charles Hussey

Italian: lofogastridi

Literature

basis of record	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	Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp.
additional source	World List of the Mysidacea - Created by Wooldridge, T. & Mees, J.
additional source	Meland, K., & E. Willassen. 2007. The disunity of “Mysidacea” (Crustacea).-- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 1083-1104.

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Citation

Meland, K.; Mees, J. (2014). Lophogastrida. In: Mees, J. & K. Meland (Eds) (2012 onwards) World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. 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:149669