Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Corophiida > Parvorder Corophiidira > Superfamily Corophioidea > Family Ampithoidae

Pleonexes Spence Bate, 1857

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ampithoe (Pleonexes)*	Spence Bate, 1857	synonym

Children

Pleonexes gammaroides Spence Bate, 1857
Pleonexes helleri (Karaman, 1975)

Literature

original description	Bate, C. S. (1857). A synopsis of the British edriophthalmous Crustacea. Part I. Amphipoda. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 2. 19: 135-152.
basis of record	Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Mateus, E. O.; Afonso, O. (1974). Etude d'une collection d'Amphipoda des Açores avec la description d'une nouvelle espèce. Publicacoes do Instituto de Zoologia "Dr. Augusto Nobre" , Faculdade de Ciencias do Porto. 126: 9-39.
additional source	Peart, R. A.; Ahyong, S. T. (2016). Phylogenetic analysis of the family Ampithoidae Stebbing, 1899 (Crustacea: Amphipoda), with a synopsis of the genera. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36(4): 456-474.
additional source	Lincoln R.J. (1976). A new species of Amphithoe (Pleonexes) (Amphipoda: Amphithoidae) from the north-east Atlantic with a redescription of A. (P.) gammaroides (Bate). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 30, 6, 229-241.
identification resource	Souza-Filho, J. F.; Andrade, L. F. (2022). A new species of Pleonexes Spence Bate, 1857 (Amphipoda: Senticaudata: Ampithoidae) from the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago, Equatorial Atlantic, Brazil, with comments on the genus. Zootaxa. 5209(2): 199-210.

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. Pleonexes Spence Bate, 1857. 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:101461