Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Hyperiidea > Infraorder Physocephalata > Parvorder Physocephalatidira

Phronimoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Superfamily group names

*Cystisomatoidea*	Willemöes-Suhm, 1875	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Cystisomatidae Willemöes-Suhm, 1875
Dairellidae Bovallius, 1887
Hyperiidae Dana, 1852
Iulopididae Zeidler, 2004
Lestrigonidae Zeidler, 2004
Phronimidae Rafinesque, 1815
Phrosinidae Dana, 1852

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ナガヒゲウミノミ上科

Literature

original description	Bowman, T. E.; Gruner, H. E. (1973). The families and genera of Hyperiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. (146): 1-64.
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). 124 pp.
status source	Lowry, J.; Myers, A. (2017). A Phylogeny and Classification of the Amphipoda with the establishment of the new order Ingolfiellida (Crustacea: Peracarida). Zootaxa. 4265(1): 1-89.
identification resource	Zeidler, W. (2004). A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Zootaxa. 567: 1-66.
identification resource	Vinogradov M.E., Volkov A.F. & Semenova T.N. (1996). Hyperiid amphipods (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) of the world oceans. Science Publishers, Inc., Lebanon, NH, 632 pp.

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. Phronimoidea Rafinesque, 1815. 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:155696