''Gmelina'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
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 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
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