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 Amphilochidira > Superfamily Amphilochoidea > Family Stenothoidae > Subfamily Stenothoinae

Stenothoe Dana, 1852

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Montagua*	Spence Bate, 1857	junior homonym
*Microstenothoe*	Pirlot, 1933	synonym
*Probolium*	A. Costa, 1853	synonym

Children

Stenothoe antennulariae Della Valle, 1893
Stenothoe ascidiae (Pirlot, 1933)
Stenothoe bosphorana Sowinsky, 1898
Stenothoe brevicornis G.O. Sars, 1883
Stenothoe cavimana Chevreux, 1908
Stenothoe coutieri Chevreux, 1908
Stenothoe crassicornis Walker, 1897
Stenothoe dollfusi Chevreux, 1887
Stenothoe eduardi Krapp-Schickel, 1975
Stenothoe elachista Krapp-Schickel, 1975
Stenothoe elachistoides Myers & McGrath, 1980
Stenothoe gallensis Walker, 1904
Stenothoe macrophthalma Stephensen, 1931
Stenothoe mandragora Krapp-Schickel, 1996
Stenothoe marina (Spence Bate, 1857)
Stenothoe megacheir (Boeck, 1871)
Stenothoe microps Sars, 1892
Stenothoe monoculoides (Montagu, 1813)
Stenothoe pieropan Krapp-Schickel, 1996
Stenothoe richardi Chevreux, 1895
Stenothoe setosa Norman, 1900
Stenothoe tenella G.O. Sars, 1883
Stenothoe tergestina (Nebeski, 1881)
Stenothoe valida Dana, 1852

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: タテソコエビ属

Literature

original description	Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wikles e classe Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D.Dana, Pars III (Amphipoda n°1). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2: 201-220.
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.
additional source	Lincoln, R. J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History). 658 pp.
identification resource	Krapp-Schickel, T. (2006). New Australian Stenothoids (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with key to all Stenothoe species. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. 30, 39-56.
identification resource	Krapp-Schickel, T. (2015). Minute but constant morphological differences within members of Stenothoidae: the Stenothoe gallensis group with four new members, keys to Stenothoe worldwide, a new species of Parametopa and Sudanea n. gen. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Journal of Natural History. 1-69.

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. Stenothoe Dana, 1852. 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:101770