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Gammaridae
Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of " scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name. 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: *'' 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 *''Dikerogammaru ...
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Dikerogammarus
''Dikerogammarus'' is a genus of amphipod crustaceans, containing the following species: *''Dikerogammarus aralychensis'' (Birstein, 1932) *''Dikerogammarus batalonicus'' Ponyi, 1955 *''Dikerogammarus bispinosus'' Martynov, 1925 *''Dikerogammarus caspius'' (Pallas, 1771) *''Dikerogammarus fluviatilis'' Martynov, 1919 *''Dikerogammarus gruberi'' Mateus & Mateus, 1990 *''Dikerogammarus haemobaphes'' (Eichwald, 1841) *''Dikerogammarus istanbulensis'' Özbek & Özkan, 2011Özbek, M. & Özkan, N. (2011). "''Dikerogammarus istanbulensis'' sp. n., a new amphipod species (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from Turkey with a key for the genus." ''Zootaxa'' 2813: 55-64. *'' Dikerogammarus oskari'' Birstein, 1945 *''Dikerogammarus villosus ''Dikerogammarus villosus'', also known as the killer shrimp, is a species of amphipod crustacean native to the Ponto-Caspian region of eastern Europe, but which has become invasive across the western part of the continent. In the areas it has ...'' (Sowinsky, ...
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Gammarus
''Gammarus'' is an amphipod crustacean genus in the family Gammaridae. It contains more than 200 described species, making it one of the most species-rich genera of crustaceans. Different species have different optimal conditions, particularly in terms of salinity, and different tolerances; ''Gammarus pulex'', for instance, is a purely freshwater species, while ''Gammarus locusta'' is estuarine, only living where the salinity is greater than 25‰. Species of ''Gammarus'' are the typical " scuds" of North America and range widely throughout the Holarctic. A considerable number are also found southwards into the Northern Hemisphere tropics, particularly in Southeast Asia. Species The following species are included: Four new species were found in 2018 on the Tibetan Plateau. Four more new species were described from the Chihuahuan Desert in 2021. *''Gammarus abscisus'' G. Karaman, 1973 *''Gammarus abstrusus'' Hou, Platvoet & Li, 2006 *'' Gammarus acalceolatus'' Pinkster, 1970 *'' ...
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Gammarus Roeselii
''Gammarus roeseli'' is a species of freshwater amphipod native to Europe. Description ''Gammarus roeseli'' adult males reach a length of up to 22 mm; females are smaller than males. The species is distinct from many other common amphipods due to the spines on its fifth through seventh pereiopods. The color of ''G. roeseli'' individuals can vary from green to brown, gray, or yellow, and some have reddish markings on parts of their carapaces. Distribution ''Gammarus roeseli'' originated in the Balkan area of Europe, and appears to have populated the Pannonian Basin as a glacial refuge before expanding into central and western Europe 10,000 years ago. It is now widespread across continental Europe. Having been in France since at least the mid-1800s it is considered to be a well-established non-native species in central, northern, and western Europe. However, it continues to expand its distribution range, including into new river basins in Italy in the 2010s. Even within th ...
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Gmelina (crustacean)
''Gmelina'' is a genus of crustaceans of the family Gammaridae Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of " scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name. They have a wide distribution, centered on Eurasia, and are eury ..., containing two species: * ''Gmelina aestuarica'' Carausu, 1943 * ''Gmelina costata'' G. O. Sars, 1894 References Gammaridea Malacostraca genera {{amphipod-stub ...
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Gammaridea
Gammaridea is one of the suborders of the order Amphipoda, comprising small, shrimp-like crustaceans. Until recently, in a traditional classification, it encompassed about 7,275 (92%) of the 7,900 species of amphipods described by then, in approximately 1,000 genus, genera, divided among around 125 family (biology), families. That concept of Gammaridea included almost all fresh water, freshwater amphipods, while most of the members still were marine. The group is however considered paraphyly, paraphyletic, and is under deconstruction by the amphipod taxonomists Jim Lowry, J. Lowry and A. Myers. In 2003 they moved several families from Gammaridea to join members of the former Caprellidea in a new suborder Corophiidea.A. A. Myers & J. K. Lowry (2003). "A phylogeny and a new classification of the Corophiidea Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda)". Journal of Crustacean Biology 23 (2): 443–485. doi:10.1651/0278-0372 Further, in 2013 another large suborder Senticaudata was established, which n ...
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Euryhaline
Euryhaline organisms are able to adapt to a wide range of salinities. An example of a euryhaline fish is the molly (''Poecilia sphenops'') which can live in fresh water, brackish water, or salt water. The green crab (''Carcinus maenas'') is an example of a euryhaline invertebrate that can live in salt and brackish water. Euryhaline organisms are commonly found in habitats such as estuaries and tide pools where the salinity changes regularly. However, some organisms are euryhaline because their life cycle involves migration between freshwater and marine environments, as is the case with salmon and eels. The opposite of euryhaline organisms are stenohaline ones, which can only survive within a narrow range of salinities. Most freshwater organisms are stenohaline, and will die in seawater, and similarly most marine organisms are stenohaline, and cannot live in fresh water. Osmoregulation Osmoregulation is the active process by which an organism maintains its level of water cont ...
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