Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Lophogastrida > Family Gnathophausiidae

Gnathophausia Willemoes-Suhm, 1875

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Neognathophausia*	Petryashov, 1992	synonym

Children

Gnathophausia affinis G.O. Sars, 1883
Gnathophausia gigas Willemoes-Suhm, 1875
Gnathophausia gracilis Willemoes-Suhm, 1875
Gnathophausia ingens (Dohrn, 1870)
Gnathophausia zoea Willemoes-Suhm, 1875

Literature

original description	von Willemoes-Suhm, R. (1875). On some Atlantic Crustacea from the Challenger Expedition Trans. Linn. Soc. of Lond., Zool. I(Part the First): 23-59, plates VI-XIII
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Brattegard, T. (2001). Mysidacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 293-295
additional source	Tattersall, O.S. 1955. Mysidacea.-- Discovery Reports 28: 1-190, 46 figs.
additional source	Meland & Aas (2013). A taxonomical review of the Gnathophausia (Crustacea, Lophogastrida), with new records from the northern mid-Atlantic ridge.
additional source	Tattersall, W.M. & Tattersall, O.S. (1951). The British Mysidacea. Ray Society: London. VIII, 460 pp
additional source	World List of the Mysidacea - Created by Wooldridge, T. & Mees, J.

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Citation

Mees, J. (2014). Gnathophausia Willemoes-Suhm, 1875. In: Mees, J. & K. Meland (Eds) (2012 onwards) World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119826