World Amphipoda Database in the Catalogue of Life
Citation
Horton T., Lowry J., De Broyer C., Bellan-Santini D., Coleman C.O., 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., Sket B., Souza-Filho J.F., Tandberg A.H., Thomas J., Thurston M., Vader W., Väinölä R., Vonk R., White K. & Zeidler W. (2019). WoRMS Amphipoda: World Amphipoda Database (version 2019-02-05). In: Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2019). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.Description
The amphipods belong to the very diverse crustacean class Malacostraca, which includes other common groups such as crabs, lobsters and shrimp. The order Amphipoda is part of the superorder Peracarida, uniting a diverse group of small shrimp-like taxa that brood their young in a pouch, with no independent larval dispersal stage. It currently contains over 10k speciesTaxonomic Coverages
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Horton T., Lowry J., De Broyer C., Bellan-Santini D., Coleman C.O., 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., Sket B., Souza-Filho J.F., Tandberg A.H., Thomas J., Thurston M., Vader W., Väinölä R., Vonk R., White K. & Zeidler W.originator
National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Marine Invertebrates, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia; Royal Belgian Academies of Sciences, Belgium
homepage: http://www.marinespecies.org/amphipoda
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Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Leiden
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Species 2000 Secretariat
Leiden
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homepage: http://www.sp2000.org/
Horton T., Lowry J., De Broyer C., Bellan-Santini D., Coleman C.O., 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., Sket B., Souza-Filho J.F., Tandberg A.H., Thomas J., Thurston M., Vader W., Väinölä R., Vonk R., White K. & Zeidler W.
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