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  Superfamily Gammaroidea

Family Pontogammaridae

    Genus Compactogammarus
    Genus Euxinia
    Genus Niphargogammarus
    Genus Niphargoides
    Genus Obesogammarus
    Genus Pandorites
    Genus Paraniphargoides
    Genus Pontogammarus
    Genus Praegmelina
    Genus Stenogammarus
    Genus Turcogammarus
    Genus Uroniphargoides

Taxon Information

The Family Pontogammaridae 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

• Pontogammaridae, "Freshwater, epigean... Eurasia" (Lowry & Myers, 2012).
• Pontogammaridae, [Palearctic; 66 species in 22 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