Gammaridae

Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds",[1] and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.

Gammaridae
Gammarus roeselii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Amphipoda
Superfamily: Gammaroidea
Family: Gammaridae
Leach, 1813
Genera

Numerous, see text

They have a wide distribution, centered on Eurasia, and are euryhaline as a lineage, inhabiting fresh to marine waters.

Systematics

The Gammaridae were for a long time used as a "wastebin taxon", which included numerous genera of gammaridean amphipods that since then have been removed to their own families, such as the Anisogammaridae, Melitidae, Niphargidae.

The following genera are currently listed in the family:[2][3]

  • Akerogammarus Derzhavin & Pjatakova, 1967
  • Albanogammarus Ruffo, 1995
  • Amathillina G. O. Sars, 1894
  • Axelboeckia Stebbing, 1899
  • Baku Karaman & Barnard, 1979
  • Cephalogammarus Karaman & Barnard, 1979
  • Chaetogammarus Martynov, 1924
  • Comatogammarus Stock, 1981
  • Condiciogammarus G. Karaman, 1984
  • Dershavinella Birstein, 1938
  • Dikerogammarus Stebbing, 1899
  • Echinogammarus Stebbing, 1899
  • Gammarus Fabricius, 1775
  • Gmelina G. O. Sars, 1894
  • Gmelinopsis G. O. Sars, 1896
  • Homoeogammarus Schellenberg, 1937
  • Ilvanella Vigna-Taglianti, 1971
  • Jubeogammarus G. Karaman, 1984
  • Jugogammarus S. Karaman, 1953
  • Kuzmelina Karaman & Barnard, 1979
  • Lanceogammarus Karaman & Barnard, 1979
  • Laurogammarus G. Karaman, 1984
  • Longigammarus G.S. Karaman, 1970
  • Lunulogammarus Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo & Schiecke, 1994
  • Lusigammarus Barnard & Barnard, 1983
  • Marinogammarus Sexton & Spooner, 1940
  • Neogammarus Ruffo, 1937
  • Parhomoeogammarus Schellenberg, 1943
  • Pectenogammarus Reid, 1940
  • Relictogammarus Hou & Sket, 2016
  • Rhipidogammarus Stock, 1971
  • Sarothrogammarus Martynov, 1935
  • Scytaelina Stock, Mirzajani, Vonk, Naderi & Kiabi, 1998
  • Shablogammarus Carausu, Dobreanu & Manolache, 1955
  • Sinogammarus Karaman & Ruffo, 1994
  • Sowinskya Derzhavin, 1948
  • Tadzhikistania Barnard & Barnard, 1983
  • Tadzocrangonyx Karaman & Barnard, 1979
  • Trichogammarus Hou & Sket, 2016
  • Tyrrhenogammarus Karaman & Ruffo, 1989
  • Yogmelina Karaman & Barnard, 1979

References
  1. "Scuds". West Fly. 2006. Archived from the original on May 25, 2006. Retrieved August 7, 2006.
  2. J. Lowry; C. De Broyer; M. Costello; D. Bellan-Santini (2010). J. Lowry (ed.). "Gammaridae". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
  3. Hou, Zhonge; Sket, Boris (2016). "A review of Gammaridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda): the family extent, its evolutionary history, and taxonomic redefinition of genera". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 176: 323–348.
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