Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Hyperiidea > Infraorder Physocephalata

Platysceloidea Bate, 1862

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Brachyscelidae Stephensen, 1923
Lycaeidae Claus, 1879
Oxycephalidae Bate, 1861
Parascelidae Bovallius, 1887
Platyscelidae Bate, 1862
Pronoidae Claus, 1879
Tryphanidae

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). vii, 123 pp.
additional source	Bowman T.E. & Gruner H.E. (1973). The families and genera of Hyperiidea (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 146, 1-64.
identification resource	Vinogradov M.E., Volkov A.F. & Semenova T.N. (1996). Hyperiid amphipods (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) of the world oceans. Science Publishers, Inc., Lebanon, NH, 632 pp.

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Citation

De Broyer, C. (2014). Platysceloidea Bate, 1862. In: Horton, T.; Lowry, J. & De Broyer, C. (2013 onwards) World Amphipoda Database. 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:155698