Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Lysianassida > Parvorder Lysianassidira > Superfamily Alicelloidea > Family Alicellidae > Genus Alicella

Alicella gigantea Chevreux, 1899

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

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Genus group names

*Alicella*	Chevreux, 1899	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ダイダラボッチ

Literature

original description	Chevreux, E. (1899). Sur deux espèces géantes d'amphipodes provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse Alice. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 24, 152-158; figs. 1-6.
additional source	Barnard, J.L. & Ingram, C.L. (1986). The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea Chevreux from the North Pacific gyre. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 6(4): 825-839.
additional source	Jamieson, A.; Lacey, N.; Lörz, A.-N.; Rowden, A.; Piertney, S. (2013). The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea (Crustacea: Alicellidae) from hadal depths in the Kermadec Trench, SW Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 92: 107-113.
redescription	De Broyer, C.; Thurston, M. H. (1987). New Atlantic material and redescription of the type specimens of the giant abyssal amphipod Alicella gigantea Chevreux (Crustacea). Zoologica Scripta. 16(4): 335-350.

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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. Alicella gigantea Chevreux, 1899. 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:488208