Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Gammarida > Parvorder Gammaridira > Superfamily Gammaroidea > Family Gammaridae > Genus Gammarus

Gammarus lacustris G.O. Sars, 1863

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gammarus*	Fabricius, 1775	accepted genus name
*Cancer (Gammarus)*	Fabricius, 1775	synonym

Species group names

*Gammarus bolkayi*	S. Karaman, 1934	subjective synonym
*Gammarus scandinavicus*	S. Karaman, 1931	subjective synonym
*Gammarus wigrensis*	Micherdzinski, 1959	subjective synonym

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1863). Beretning om en i Sommeren 1862 foretagen zoologisk Reise i Christianias og Trondhjems Stifter. [Report on a zoological trip undertaken in the summer of 1862 in Christiania and Trondhjem Stifter.]. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne. 12: 193-252.
basis of record	Orlova, M.I.; Telesh, I.V.; Berezina, N.A.; Antsulevich, A.E.; Maximov, A.A.; Litvinchuk, L.F. (2006). Effects of nonindigenous species on diversity and community functioning in the eastern Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea). Helgol. Mar. Res. 60(2): 98-105.
additional source	Vainio, J.K., Väinölä, R. 2003. Refugial races and postglacial colonization history of the freshwater amphipod Gammarus lacustris in northern Europe. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 79(4): 523-542.
additional source	Karaman G.S. & Pinkster S. (1977). Freshwater Gammarus species from Europe, North Africa and adjacent regions of Asia (Crustacea - Amphipoda). Part I. Gammarus pulex - group and related species. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 47, 1, 1-97.
additional source	Species 2000
additional source	Hou, Z.; Li, S. (2005). Amphipod crustaceans (Gammaridea) from Beijing, P. R. China. Journal of Natural History. 39(36): 3255-3274.
identification resource	Zamanpoore M., Grabowski M., Poeckl M., Schiemer F. 2011. Taxonomic review of freshwater Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Iran. Zootaxa 3140: 1-14.

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. Gammarus lacustris G.O. Sars, 1863. 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:234085

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Gammarus lacustris G.O. Sars, 1863. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e8d62ea7-3dac-4afc-8b77-3660f0453e6d