Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Amphilochida > Parvorder Eusiridira > Superfamily Eusiroidea > Family Eusiridae

Rhachotropis S.I. Smith, 1883

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tritropis*	Boeck, 1871	junior homonym
*Gracilipes*	Holmes, 1908	synonym

Children

Rhachotropis aculeata (Lepechin, 1780)
Rhachotropis arii Thurston, 1980
Rhachotropis caeca Ledoyer, 1977
Rhachotropis distincta (Holmes, 1908)
Rhachotropis faeroensis Stephensen, 1944
Rhachotropis gislii Thurston, 1980
Rhachotropis glabra Ledoyer, 1977
Rhachotropis gracilis Bonnier, 1896
Rhachotropis grimaldii (Chevreux, 1887)
Rhachotropis helleri (Boeck, 1871)
Rhachotropis inermis Ledoyer, 1977
Rhachotropis inflata (G.O. Sars, 1883)
Rhachotropis integricauda Carausu, 1948
Rhachotropis kergueleni Stebbing, 1888
Rhachotropis leucophthalma G.O. Sars, 1893
Rhachotropis lomonosovi Gurjanova, 1934
Rhachotropis macropus G.O. Sars, 1893
Rhachotropis oculata (Hansen, 1888)
Rhachotropis proxima Chevreux, 1911
Rhachotropis rostrata Bonnier, 1896
Rhachotropis thordisae Thurston, 1980
Rhachotropis thorkelli Thurston, 1980

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: リュウグウヨコエビ属

Literature

additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie. 77, suppl. 1: 1-325.
identification resource	Lörz, A. N. (2010). Deep-sea Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from New Zealand and the Ross Sea with key to the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Antarctic species. Zootaxa. 2482: 22-48.
identification resource	Corbari, L.; Zuccon, D.; Sorbe, J. C.; Frutos, I. (2024). New bathyal amphipod species (Amphipoda: Eusiridae: Rhachotropis) from southwestern Pacific through integrative taxonomy. Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
replacement name source	Smith S.I. (1883a). Review of the marine Crustacea of Labrador. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 6, pp. 223-232.

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. Rhachotropis S.I. Smith, 1883. 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:101528