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

Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Achelinae Wilson, 1881
Ammotheinae Dohrn, 1881
Megarhethus Child, 1982
Neotrygaeus Munilla & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2014
Pariboea Philippi, 1843
Scipiolus Loman, 1908

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: イソウミグモ科

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
identification resource	Child C.A. (1994). Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida. 2. The family Austrodecidae. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXIII. , 49-99.
identification resource	Bamber, Roger N. (2009). Two new species of Sericosura Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969 (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida: Ammotheidae), and a reassessment of the genus. Zootaxa. 2140: 56-68.
identification resource	Child C.A. (1994). Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida. 1. The family Ammotheidae. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXIII. , 1-48.

Genbank

Citation

Bamber, R.N.; El Nagar, A.; Arango, C.P.; Sabroux, R. (Eds) (2025). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database. Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881. 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:1562