Iphigenellidae


Iphigenellidae is a freshwater family of amphipods in the superfamily Gammaroidea.[1][2] It is found in the Ponto-Caspian region, which encompasses the Black, Azov, and Caspian Seas.[2]

Iphigenellidae
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Iphigenellidae

Kamaltynov, 2001
Type genus
Iphigenella
Sars, 1896

It has only one genus and one species,[3] which are:

Prior species

Two species – I. andrussowi and I. shablensis[5] – were, respectively, described by Sars and Carausu in 1894 and 1943, but these species are no longer recognized.[3]

References

  1. Lowry, James K.; Myers, Alan A. (5 February 2013). "A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3610 (1): 1–80. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3610.1. PMID 24699701 via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
  2. Väinölä, R.; Witt, J. D. S.; Gabowski, M.; Bradbury, J. H.; Jazdzewski, K.; Sket, B. (18 December 2007). "Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. 595: 241–255. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9020-6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016 via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
  3. Ahyong, Shane T.; et al. (23 December 2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness | Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148 (1): 165–191. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.33. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 April 2019 via the Natural History Museum, London. Family Iphigenellidae Kamaltynov, 2001 (1 genus, 1 species)
  4. Vader, Wim; Tandberg, Anne Helene S. (July 2015). "Amphipods as Associates of other Crustacea: A Survey". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 35 (4): 522–532. doi:10.1163/1937240X-00002343.
  5. Ketelaars, Henk A. M. (2004). "Range extensions of Ponto-Caspian aquatic invertebrates in Continental Europe". In Dumont, Henri; Shiganova, Tamara A.; Niermann, Ulrich (eds.). Aquatic Invasions in the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean Seas: The Ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe in the Ponto-Caspian and other Aquatic Invasions. NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences. 35. Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 218. doi:10.1007/1-4020-2152-6_13. ISBN 978-1-4020-1866-4. LCCN 2004050070.

Further reading

  • Kamaltynov, R. M. (2001). "Amfipody (Amphipoda: Gammaroidea)". In Timoshkin, O. A. (ed.). Annotirovannyi spisok fauny ozera Baikal i ego vodosbornogo basseina [Index of animal species inhabiting Lake Baikal and its catchment area]. Book 1 (in Russian). Vol. I: Lake Baikal. Novosibirsk: Nauka. pp. 572–831.
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