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

Physocephalata Bowman & Gruner, 1973

Rank: Infraorder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cystisomatoidea Zeidler, 2003
Lycaeopsoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973
Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1975
Platysceloidea Bate, 1862
Vibilioidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973

Literature

original description

Bowman, T.E. & H.E. Gruner, 1973. The Families and Genera of Hyperiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 146: 1-64.

basis of record

Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp.

additional source

Zeidler W. & De Broyer, C. (2009). Catalogue of the Hyperidean 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. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie, 79, suppl. 1: 1-103.

identification resource

Vinogradov M.E., Volkov A.F. & Semenova T.N. (1996). Hyperiid amphipods (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) of the world oceans. Science Publishers, Inc., Lebanon, NH, 632 pp.

Genbank

loading

External Links

GenBank
GBIF

Citation

De Broyer, C. (2014). Physocephalata. 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:155692

Image

loading

Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

no data

Provided by

logo erms

GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155692

Last modified

2010-10-14 by Claude De Broyer

Your feedback

click here

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Your e-mail address:

Your message: