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 Gammaracanthidae

Gammaracanthus Spence Bate, 1863

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gammaracanthus lacustris Sars, 1867
Gammaracanthus loricatus (Sabine, 1824)

Literature

original description	Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum Natural History: London. i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58.
additional source	Väinölä R, Vainio JK, Palo JU (2001) Phylogeography of "glacial relict" Gammaracanthus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from boreal lakes and the Caspian and White Seas. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58: 2247-2257.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Bousfield, E. L. (1989). Revised Morphological Relationships Within the Amphipod Genera Pontoporeia and Gammaracanthus and the "Glacial Relict" Significance of their Postglacial Distributions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 46(10), 1714-1725.
taxonomy source	Lomakina, N.B. 1952. Proiskhozhdenie lednikovykh reliktovykh amfipod v svaizi s voprosom o pozdnelednikovom belomorsko-baltiiskom soedinenii [The origin of glacial relict amphipods in relation to the question of the postglacial connection between the White Sea and the Baltic]. Ucheye Zapiski Karelo-Finskogo Universiteta, Biologicheskie Nauki 4(3), 110-127. [Translation from Russian in: Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Translation Series, No. 390]
identification resource	Gurjanova, E. (1951). Bokoplavy morei SSSR i sopredelnykh vod (Amphipoda,Gammaridea). [Amphipods of the seas of USSR and adjacent waters (Amphipoda, Gammaridea)]. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, Akademiya Nauk SSSR. 41: 1-1029, 705 figs.

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. Gammaracanthus Spence Bate, 1863. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101531

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Gammaracanthus Spence Bate, 1863. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/36762ae9-09aa-4d9e-bf69-18f44f762aaa