Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Chelicerata > Class Pycnogonida > Order Pantopoda > Suborder Eupantopodida > Superfamily Ascorhynchoidea

Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Achelia Hodge, 1864
Ammothea Leach, 1814
Ammothella Verrill, 1900
Austroraptus Hodgson, 1907
Cilunculus Loman, 1908
Megarhethus Child, 1982
Nymphopsis Haswell, 1885
Paranymphon Caullery, 1896
Scipiolus Loman, 1908
Sericosura Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969
Tanystylum Miers, 1879
Trygaeus Dohrn, 1881

Literature

basis of record

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

identification resource

Child C.A. (1994). Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida. 1. The family Ammotheidae. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXIII. , 1-48.

identification resource

Bamber R.N., 2009. Two new species of Sericosura Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969 (Pycnogonida: Ammotheidae), and a reassessment of the genus. Zootaxa, 2140: 56-68.

identification resource

Child C.A. (1994). Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida. 2. The family Austrodecidae. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXIII. , 49-99.

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Citation

Bamber, R. (2014). Ammotheidae. In: Bamber, R.N., El Nagar, A. (Eds) (2014). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida 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:1562

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Occurrence

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Environment


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2009-01-04 by Roger Bamber

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