Echinogammarus | |
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Echinogammarus ischnus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Amphipoda |
Family: | Gammaridae |
Genus: | Echinogammarus Stebbing, 1899 |
Echinogammarus is a genus of amphipod crustaceans in the family Gammaridae. The status of many of its species is incertae sedis , but its type species is Echinogammarus berilloni. [1] Species in Echinogammarus are parasitized by the Filozoan species Txikispora philomaios. [2]