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 > Genus Crangonyx

Crangonyx pseudogracilis Bousfield, 1958

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Crangonyx*	Spence Bate, 1859	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: northern river crangonyctid

Literature

original description	Bousfield, E. L. (1958). Freshwater amphipod crustaceans of glaciated North America. Canadian Field Naturalist. 72: 55-113.
additional source	Berthold, E.L. & Kaiser, I. (2004). Weitere Funde von Crangonyx pseudogracilis und Chelicorophium robustum (Amphipoda) im Main. Lauterbornia. 50, 15-16.
additional source	Graening, G.O., Hoslinger, G.R., Fenolio, D.B., Bergey, E.A. & Vaughn, C.C. (2006). Annotated checklist of the amphipod crustaceans of Oklahoma, with emphasis on groundwater habitats. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences. 86: 65-74.
additional source	Jass, J. & Klausmeier, B. (2003). Utilization of lotic, lentic and temporary habitats by the amphipod Crangonyx gracilis. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 18, 635-638.
additional source	Slothouber Galbreath, J. G. M., Smith, J. E., Becnel, J. J., Butlin, R. K. & Dunn, A. M. (2010). Reduction in post-invasion genetic diversity in Crangonyx pseudogracilis (Amphipoda: Crustacea): a genetic bottleneck or the work of hitchhiking vertically transmitted microparasites?. Biological Invasions. 12, 191-209.
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	Hess, M. & Heckes, U. (2006). The North American amphipod Crangonyx pseudogracilis Bousfield, 1958 (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) reaches the catchment of the river Danube/Germany. Lauterbonia. 58, 143-145.
additional source	Dick, J.T.L., MacNeil,C. & Andersson, R. (1999). The distribution of Crangonyx pseudogracilis Bousfield, 1958 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in Northern Ireland, with notes on its ecology and behavior. Irish Naturalists Journal. 26: 236 - 240.
additional source	Bottorff, R., Braelyn, A. & Hamill, W.I. (2003). Records of the exotic freshwater amphipod, Crangonyx pseudogracilis, in San Luis Obispo County, California. California Fish & Game. 89, 197-200.
additional source	Bernerth, H. & Stein, S. (2003). Crangonyx pseudogracilis und Corophium robustum (Amphipoda), zwei neue Einwanderer im hessischen Main sowie Erstnachweis für Deutschland von C. robustum. Lauterbornia. 48, 57-60.
additional source	Kornobis, E., Pálsson, S., Kristijánsson, B.K. & Svavarsson, J. (2010). Molecular evidence of the survival of subterranean amphipods (Arthropoda) during Ice Age underneath glaciers in Iceland. Molecular Ecology. 19: 2516-2530.
additional source	Martens, A. & Grabow, K. (2006). The habitat of Crangonyx pseudogracilis in the Upper Rhine region, Germany (Crustacea: Amphipoda): an invasive species is colonizing waters outside the anthropogenically influenced main shipping channel. Lauterbonia. 58, 131-137.
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	Zhao, S.; Hou, Z. (2017). A new subterranean species of Pseudocrangonyx from China with an identification key to all species of the genus (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Pseudocrangonyctidae). ZooKeys.(647), 1-22.
redescription	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.
status 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.

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 pseudogracilis Bousfield, 1958. 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:431504

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Crangonyx pseudogracilis Bousfield, 1958. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/506f84dd-efa0-47aa-85f0-1533caeab040