Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Lysianassida > Parvorder Lysianassidira > Superfamily Lysianassoidea > Family Eurytheneidae

Eurythenes S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Katius*	Chevreux, 1905	synonym

Children

Eurythenes gryllus (Lichtenstein in Mandt, 1822)
Eurythenes obesus (Chevreux, 1905)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: オキソコエビ属

Literature

original description	Scudder, S. H. (1882). Nomenclator Zoologicus. An alphabetical list of all generic names that have been employed by naturalists for recent and fossil animals from the earliest times to the close of the year 1879. In 2 parts: 1. Supplemental list. II. Universal index. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 19: i-xix, 1-340.
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	D'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Havermans, C. (2015). Contribution to the systematics of the genus Eurythenes S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Eurytheneidae). Zootaxa. 3971(1): 1-80.
identification resource	Stoddart H.E. & Lowry J.K. (2004). The deep-sea lysianassoid genus Eurythenes (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eurytheneidae n. fam.). Zoosystema, 26, 3, 425-468 pp.
biology source	Boudrias, M. A. (2002). Are pleopods just "more legs"? The functional morphology of swimming limbs in Eurythenes gryllus (Amphipoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 22(3): 581-594.

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. Eurythenes S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882. 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:101607