Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Gammarida > Subsection Gammaridira > Superfamily Gammaroidea > Family Gammaridae > Genus Gammarus

Gammarus pulex (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cancer Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

GammarusFabricius, 1775accepted genus name

Species group names

Cancer pulex Linnaeus, 1758 objective synonym

Children

Gammarus pulex araurensis Pinkster, 1972
Gammarus pulex cognominis G. S. Karaman & Pinkster, 1977
Gammarus pulex gallicus (S. Karaman, 1931)
Gammarus pulex polonensis G. S. Karaman & Pinkster, 1977
Gammarus pulex pulex (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Danish: almindelig ferskvandstangloppe

Literature

original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.

basis of record

Grabowski, M.; Konopacka, A.; Jazdzewski, K.; Janowska, E. (2006). Invasions of alien gammarid species and retreat of natives in the Vistula Lagoon (Baltic Sea, Poland). Helgol. Mar. Res. 60(2): 90-97.

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (12389 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (696 publications)
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Lowry, J. (2014). Gammarus pulex Linnaeus, 1758. 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:234074

Dr Ronald Vonk. Gammarus pulex (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=240806

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234074
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:240806

Last modified

2010-07-19 by Dr Geoffrey Boxshall & by Jim Lowry & by Dr Ronald Vonk

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