Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Gammaridea > Superfamily Lysianassoidea

Opisidae Lowry & Stoddart, 1995

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Normanion Bonnier, 1893
Opisa Boeck, 1876
Podoprionella G.O. Sars, 1895

Literature

original description	Lowry J.K. & Stoddart H.E. (1995b). The Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Madang Lagoon: Lysianassidae, Opisidae, Uristidae, Wandinidae and Stegocephalidae. The Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea, Part 1. Records of the Australian Museum, 97-174.
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.
identification resource	Lowry J.K. & Stoddart H.E. (1995b). The Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Madang Lagoon: Lysianassidae, Opisidae, Uristidae, Wandinidae and Stegocephalidae. The Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea, Part 1. Records of the Australian Museum, 97-174.
identification resource	Stoddart H.E. & Lowry J.K. (2010) The family Opisidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)in Australasian waters. Zootaxa 2479: 22–38.

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Citation

De Broyer, C. (2014). Opisidae Lowry & Stoddart, 1995. 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:176953