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Biancolinidae
Ampithoidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans. The family has a worldwide distribution as algal dwellers. They commonly create tube-shaped nests on their host plants or algae which serve as both shelter and food. Young ampithoids develop from eggs to a larval stage within their mother's brood-pouch, formed by the appendages of her abdomen. Genera The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ... in this family:- *'' Amphithoides'' Kossmann, 1880 *'' Amphitholina'' Ruffo, 1953 *'' Ampithoe'' Leach, 1814 *'' Austrothoe'' Peart, 2014 *'' Biancolina'' Della Valle, 1893 *'' Cymadusa'' Savigny, 1816 *'' Exampithoe'' K.H. Barnard, 1926 *'' Macropisthopus'' K.H. Barnard, 1916 *'' Paradusa'' Ruffo, 1969 *'' Paragrubia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corophiidea
Corophiida is an infraorder of amphipods that contains the two parvorders Caprellidira (skeleton shrimp and whale lice) and Corophiidira. In 2003-2013 this group was treated as a suborder, Corophiidea, which in turn had been re-established to contain the taxa previously treated as the suborder Caprellidea, together with some families formerly placed in the suborder Gammaridea. More recently, the group was made part of the new suborder Senticaudata.Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (2013A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) Zootaxa ''Zootaxa'' is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists. It is published by Magnolia Press (Auckland, New Zealand). The journal was established by Zhi-Qiang Zhang in 2001 and new issues are published multiple times a week. ... 3610 (1): 1-80. References External links * Amphipoda Arthropod infraorders {{Amphipod-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunamphitoe Femorata
''Sunamphitoe femorata'' is a species of amphipod crustacean in the family Ampithoidae. It is a herbivore and constructs a tubular nest-like home on a blade of the sporophyte of the giant kelp ''Macrocystis pyrifera''. This home is made by rolling the sides of the blade together and securing them with silk. As the kelp blade grows, so the nest is advanced down the blade towards the base, approximately keeping pace with the algal growth. Taxonomy The species was originally described in 1845 as ''Ampithoe femorata'' by Henrik Nikolai Krøyer and moved to ''Peramphithoe femorata in 1982. Following a phylogenetic analysis that found neither ''Peramphithoe'' nor ''Sunamphitoe'' monophyletic, with the species intermingled within a clade, the two genera were synonymised and ''Peramphithoe femorata'' renamed ''Sunamphitoe femorata''. Distribution ''Sunamphitoe femorata'' has been reported from the Caribbean Sea, Venezuela and the Southern Ocean. Behaviour ''Sunamphitoe femorata'' is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudamphithoides Incurvaria
''Pseudamphithoides incurvaria'' is a species of amphipod crustacean in the family Ampithoidae. It is native to shallow water in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean where it creates a home for itself from fragments of the algae on which it feeds. This seaweed contains certain chemicals that are distasteful and protect it from predatory fish. Taxonomy Two new single-species amphithoid genera were described in close succession in the mid-1970s, '' Pseudamphithoides'' Ortiz, 1976 and ''Amphyllodomus'' Just, 1977. The latter had ''A. incurvaria'' as its type, with the specific name referring to the moth genus '' Incurvaria'', whose cocoon is built similarly to ''A. incurvaria''s home. Both authors noted that the genera they were describing were unusual and divergent. This was marked enough that when Karaman and Barnard later noted the synonymy of the two genera, they further added: " esaw specimens of the genus from Puerto Rico in 1975 and had the same difficulty initially placing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |