Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Gammarida > Parvorder Gammaridira > Superfamily Gammaroidea > Family Gammaridae > Genus Dikerogammarus

Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dikerogammarus*	Stebbing, 1899	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Gammarus villosus*	Sowinsky, 1894	objective synonym
*Gammarus marinus var. villosa*	Sowinsky, 1894	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: reuzenvlokreeft sources: Vercauteren, Th.; Sablon, R.; Wouters, K. (2006). Exotische ongewervelden in vijvers en grachten van het Provinciaal Groendomein Prinsenpark in Retie: een eerste bilan, in: Nieuwborg, H. et al. (Ed.) (2006). Natuurstudie in de provincie Antwerpen: Antwerpse Koepel voor Natuurstudie (ANKONA) Jaarboek 2004-2005. pp. 27-39

English: killer shrimp sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Großer Höckerflohkrebs sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Ukrainian: Бокоплав опушений

Literature

additional source	Faasse, M.; Van Moorsel, G. (2000). Nieuwe en minder bekende vlokreeftjes van sublitorale harde bodems in het Deltagebied (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) [New and lesser-known amphipods of hard substrates in the Delta area of the Netherlands (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea)]. Ned. Faunist. Meded. 11: 19-44
ecology source	Rewicz, T.; Grabowski, M.; MacNeil, C.; Bącela-Spychalska, K. (2014). The profile of a ‘perfect' invader – the case of killer shrimp, Dikerogammarus villosus. Aquatic Invasions. 9(3): 267-288.
ecology source	Bącela, K.; Grabowski, M.; Konopacka, A. (2008). Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894) (Crustacea, Amphipoda) enters Vistula – the biggest river in the Baltic basin. Aquatic Invasions. 3(1): 95-98.
ecology source	Rewicz, T.; Wattier, R.; Grabowski, M.; Rigaud, T.; Bącela-Spychalska, K. (2015). Out of the Black Sea: Phylogeography of the Invasive Killer Shrimp Dikerogammarus villosus across Europe. PLOS ONE. 10(2): e0118121.

Genbank

Citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148586

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/3ece16b0-af62-49f7-8e1d-a53228d70ce7