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  Superfamily Crangonyctoidea

Family Crangonyctidae

    Genus Crangonyx -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Stygobromus -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Bactrurus -- midwestern North America.
    Genus Stygonyx -- North America.
    Genus Synurella -- North America.
    Genus Amurocrangonyx
    Genus Lyurella
    Genus Pachypodacrangonyx
    Genus Palaeogammarus

Taxon Information

The Family Crangonyctidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Crangonyctidae, "Freshwater, hypogean and epigean... Holarctic" (Lowry & Myers, 2012).
• Crangonyctidae, [North America] (Covich et al., 2010).
• Crangonyctidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic; 209 species in 5 genera worldwide, 184 Nearctic species in 5 genera] (Väinölä et al., 2008).
• Crangonyctidae, [North America] (Smith, 2001).

Bibliography

• Lowry, J.K. & A.A. Myers. 2012. A phylogeny and classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). ZooTaxa 3610: 1-80. [Available online]
• Covich, A.P., J.H. Thorp & D.C. Rogers. 2010. Introduction to the Subphylum Crustacea. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 695-723.
• Väinölä, R., J.D.S. Witt, M. Grabowski, J.H. Bradbury, K. Jazdzewski & B. Sket. 2008. Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 241-255. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Amphipoda (Scuds, sideswimmers). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 569-584.

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Amphipoda Database
• World Register of Marine Species