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  Superfamily Gammaroidea

Family Acanthogammaridae

    Subfamily Acanthogammarinae
    Subfamily Carinogammarinae
    Subfamily Hyalellopsinae
    Subfamily Odontogammarinae
    Subfamily Parapallaseinae
    Subfamily Plesiogammarinae
    Subfamily Poekilogammarinae

Taxon Information

The Family Acanthogammaridae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

• Acanthogammaridae, "Freshwater, epigean and hypogean... Lake Baikal" (Lowry & Myers, 2012).
• Acanthogammaridae, [Palearctic; 159 species in 39 genera worldwide] (Väinölä et al., 2008).

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]
• 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]

Web Pages

• World Amphipoda Database
• World Register of Marine Species