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 Hirondelleidae

Hirondellea Chevreux, 1889

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tetronychia*	Stephensen, 1923	synonym

Children

Hirondellea abyssalis (Stephensen, 1923)
Hirondellea brevicaudata Chevreux, 1910
Hirondellea namarensis Horton & Thurston, 2013
Hirondellea trioculata Chevreux, 1889

Literature

original description	Chevreux, E. (1889). Amphipodes nouveaux provenant des campagnes de " l' Hirondelle " 1887-1888. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 14, 283-289; 3 figs.
additional source	Barnard, J.L. & Ingram, C.L. (1990). Lysianassoid Amphipoda (Crustacea) from deep-sea thermal vents. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. (499), 1-80.
identification resource	Kilgallen, N. M. (2014). Three new species of Hirondellea (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Hirondelleidae) from hadal depths of the Peru-Chile Trench. Marine Biology Research. 1-15.
identification resource	Lowry J.K. & Stoddart H.E. (2010). The deep-sea scavenging genus Hirondellea (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Hirondelleidae fam. nov.) in Australian waters. Zootaxa 2329: 37-55.
identification resource	Horton, T. & Thurston, M., (2013) Hirondellea namarensis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Hirondelleidae), a new deep-water scavenger species from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Marine Biology Research. 9, 5-6 554-562.

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. Hirondellea Chevreux, 1889. 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:101612