Gammaroidea is a superfamily 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 ...
s in the order
Amphipoda
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 desc ...
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Families
These families belong to the superfamily Gammaroidea:[
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* Acanthogammaridae
Acanthogammaridae is a family of amphipod crustaceans, endemic to Lake Baikal. It contains the following subfamilies and genera:
;Acanthogammarinae Garjajeff, 1901
*'' Acanthogammarus'' Stebbing, 1899
*'' Boeckaxelia'' Schellenberg, 1940
*'' B ...
Garjajeff, 1901
* Anisogammaridae
Anisogammaridae is a family of small benthic amphipods, endemic to the northern part of the Pacific rim
The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The ''Pacific Basin'' includes the Pacific Rim and the islands i ...
Bousfield, 1977
* Baikalogammaridae Kamaltynov, 2002
* Bathyporeiidae d'Udekem d'Acoz, 2011
* Behningiellidae Kamaltynov, 2002
* Carinogammaridae Tachteew, 2001 sensu Kamaltynov, 2010
* Crypturopodidae Kamaltynov, 2002
* Eulimnogammaridae Kamaltynov, 1999
* Falklandellidae Lowry & Myers, 2012
* Gammaracanthidae Bousfield, 1989
* Gammarellidae Bousfield, 1977
* 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 ...
Latreille, 1802
* Iphigenellidae Kamaltynov, 2002
* Luciobliviidae Tomikawa, 2007
* Macrohectopidae Sowinsky, 1915
* Mesogammaridae Bousfield, 1977
* Micruropodidae Kamaltynov, 1999
* Ommatogammaridae Kamaltynov, 2010
* Pachyschesidae Kamaltynov, 1999
* Pallaseidae Tachteew, 2001
* Paraleptamphopidae Bousfield, 1983
* Phreatogammaridae Bousfield, 1982
* Pontogammaridae Bousfield, 1977
* Sensonatoridae Lowry & Myers, 2012
* Typhlogammaridae Bousfield, 1978
* Zaramillidae Lowry & Myers, 2016
References
Amphipoda
Arthropod superfamilies
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