Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Gammarida > Parvorder Gammaridira > Superfamily Gammaroidea > Family Gammaridae > Genus Pectenogammarus

Pectenogammarus pungens (H. Milne Edwards, 1840)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pectenogammarus*	Reid, 1940	accepted genus name
*Gammarus (Pectenogammarus)*	Reid, 1940	synonym
*Homoeogammarus*	Schellenberg, 1937	synonym

Species group names

*Echinogammarus minoricensis*	Margalef, 1952	subjective synonym
*Echinogammarus minoricensis*	Stock, 1977	subjective synonym
*Echinogammarus pungentoides*	Diviacco & Pinkster, 1982	subjective synonym
*Echinogammarus pungens*	(H. Milne Edwards, 1840)	synonym
*Gammarus pungens*	H. Milne Edwards, 1840	synonym

Literature

additional source	Hou, Z.; Sket, B. (2016). A review of Gammaridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda): the family extent, its evolutionary history, and taxonomic redefinition of genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 176(2): 323-348.
additional source	Sket, B. & Hou, Z. (2018). Family Gammaridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda), mainly its Echinogammarus clade in SW Europe. Further elucidation of its phylogeny and taxonomy. Acta Biologica Slovenica. 61 (2), 93-102.
new combination reference	García-París, M.; Jurado-Angulo, P.; Rodríguez-Flores, P. C.; Rosas-Ramos, N. (2023). Nomenclatural changes in a taxonomically complex group (Amphipoda: Gammaridae). Zootaxa. 5230(5): 595-600.

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. Pectenogammarus pungens (H. Milne Edwards, 1840). 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:1646433