Ampithoidae is a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
of
amphipod
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
s. 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
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Content
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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:-
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Amphithoides''
Kossmann, 1880
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Amphitholina''
Ruffo, 1953
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Ampithoe''
Leach, 1814
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Austrothoe''
Peart, 2014
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Biancolina''
Della Valle, 1893
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Cymadusa''
Savigny, 1816
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Exampithoe''
K.H. Barnard, 1926
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Macropisthopus''
K.H. Barnard, 1916
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Paradusa''
Ruffo, 1969
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Paragrubia''
Chevreux, 1901
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Paranexes''
Peart, 2014
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Pleonexes''
Spence Bate, 1857
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Plumithoe''
Barnard & Karaman, 1991
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Pseudamphithoides''
Ortiz, 1976 (e.g. ''
Pseudamphithoides incurvaria'')
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Pseudopleonexes''
Conlan, 1982
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Sunamphitoe''
Spence Bate, 1857 (e.g. ''
Sunamphitoe femorata'')
References
Further reading
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Corophiidea
Taxa described in 1871
Crustacean families
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