Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Hadziida > Subsection Hadziidira > Superfamily Hadzioidea

Maeridae Krapp-Schickel, 2008

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Animoceradocus G. Karaman, 1984
Ceradocus Costa, 1853
Elasmopus Costa, 1853
Hamimaera Krapp-Schickel, 2008
Maera Leach, 1814
Maerella Chevreux, 1911
Maeropsis Chevreux, 1919
Othomaera Krapp-Schickel, 2000
Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000
Wimvadocus Krapp-Schickel & Jarrett, 2000

Literature

original description	Krapp-Schickel, T. 2008. What has happened with the Maera-clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda) during the last decades? Bolletino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona, 32, Botanica Zoologia: 3-32.
basis of record	Krapp-Schickel, T. 2008. What has happened with the Maera-clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda) during the last decades? Bolletino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona, 32, Botanica Zoologia: 3-32.
additional source	Lowry, J.K. & Hugues, L.E. (2009). Maeridae, the Elasmopus group. In: Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (Eds) (2009) Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa, 2260: 1-930.

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Citation

Krapp-Schickel, T.; Horton, T.; De Broyer, C. (2014). Maeridae Krapp-Schickel, 2008. 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:475166