Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida

Lophogastrida Boas, 1883

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Eucopiidae G.O. Sars, 1885
Gnathophausiidae Udrescu, 1984
Lophogastridae G.O. Sars, 1870

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: lophogastrids; opossum shrimps sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: lofogastridi

Japanese: ロフォガスター目

Literature

basis of record	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
additional source	Meland, K., & E. Willassen. 2007. The disunity of “Mysidacea” (Crustacea).-- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 1083-1104.
additional source	Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp.
additional source	Wooldridge, T. H.; Mees, J. (2011 onwards). World List of the Mysidacea.

Genbank

Citation

Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Lophogastrida. 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:149669