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 Crangonyctidira > Superfamily Crangonyctoidea > Family Crangonyctidae

Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Crangonyx chlebovnikovi Borutzky, 1928
Crangonyx paxi Schellenberg, 1942
Crangonyx pseudogracilis Bousfield, 1958

Literature

original description	Bate, C. S. (1859). On the genus Niphargus (Schiödte). Proceedings of the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association. 1: 237-240.
additional source	Nakano, T., Tomikawa, K., Grygier, M.J. (2018). Rediscovered syntypes of Procrangonyx japonicus, with nomenclatural consideration of some crangonyctoidean subterranean amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Allocrangonyctidae, Niphargidae, Pseudocrangonyctidae). Zootaxa. 4532 (1): 86–94.
additional source	Kornobis, E., Pálsson, S. & Svavarsson, J. (2012). Classification of Crangonyx islandicus (Amphipoda, Crangonyctidae) based on morphological characters and comparison with molecular phylogenies. Zootaxa. 3233: 52-66.
additional source	Sidorov, D. A.;Pankov, N. N.;Holsinger, J. R.;. (2012). Distribution and ecology of the subterranean amphipod Crangonyx chlebnikovi Borutzky, 1928 (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae), with lectotype designation and comments on morphology of the lateral cephalic lobe. Arthropoda Selecta. 21(2): 149-160.
additional source	Sidorov, D. A.; Palatov, D. (2012). Taxonomy of the spring dwelling amphipod Synurella ambulans (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae) in West Russia: with notes on its distribution and ecology. European Journal of Taxonomy. 23: 1-19.
additional source	Cannizzaro, A. G.; Balding, D.; Lazo-Wasem, E. A.; Sawicki, T. R. (2019). Morphological and molecular analyses reveal a new species of stygobitic amphipod in the genus Crangonyx (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae) from Jackson County, Florida, with a redescription of Crangonyx floridanus and notes on its taxonomy and biogeography. Journal of Natural History. 53(7-8): 425-473.
additional source	Bousfield E.L. & Holsinger J.R. (1989). A new crangonyctid amphipod crustacean from hypogean fresh waters of Oregon. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 67, 963-968.
additional source	Kornobis, E.; Pálsson, S.; Sidorov, D. A.; Holsinger, J. R.; Kristjánsson, B. K. (2011). Molecular taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of two groundwater amphipods, Crangonyx islandicus and Crymostygius thingvallensis, endemic to Iceland. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58(3): 527-539.
additional source	Takhteev V.V., Berezina N.A., Sidorov D.A. (2015). Checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) from continental waters of Russia, with data on alien species. Arthropoda Selecta. 24(3): 335–370.
status source	Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 312 pp.
taxonomy source	Zhang, J.; Holsinger, J. R. (2003). Systematics of the freshwater amphipod genus Crangonyx (Crangonyctidae) in North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Memoir. 6, 274 pp.
taxonomy source	Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum Natural History: London. i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58.
taxonomy source	Lowry, J. K.; Myers, A. A. (2013). A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Zootaxa. 3610(1): 1-80.
identification resource	Zhang, J.; Holsinger, J. R. (2003). Systematics of the freshwater amphipod genus Crangonyx (Crangonyctidae) in North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Memoir. 6, 274 pp.

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. Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859. 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:431462

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/599eb58b-fbfc-462f-969b-460b6ebd8a53