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 Scopelocheiridae > Subfamily Scopelocheirinae

Scopelocheirus Spence Bate, 1857

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Callisoma*	A. Costa in Hope, 1851	junior homonym

Children

Scopelocheirus crenatus Spence Bate, 1857
Scopelocheirus hopei (A. Costa in Hope, 1851)
Scopelocheirus polymedus Bellan-Santini, 1985

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: クツミガキソコエビ属

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.
taxonomy source	Kilgallen, N. M.; Lowry, J. K. (2015). A review of the scopelocheirid amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea), with the description of new taxa from Australian waters. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 91(1), 1-43.

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. Scopelocheirus 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:101652