| Elasmopus | |
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| Elasmopus levis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Family: | Maeridae |
| Genus: | Elasmopus Costa, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Elasmopus rapax Costa, 1853 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
NeogammaropsisStout, 1913 | |
Elasmopus is a cosmopolitan [2] genus of amphipods in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 1853 by Achille Costa. [3] [4] The type species is Elasmopus rapaxCosta, 1853. [3]
There are 143 species accepted by WoRMS [1] Some appear below.
Gammaridea is one of the suborders of the order Amphipoda, comprising small, shrimp-like crustaceans. Until recently, in a traditional classification, it encompassed about 7,275 (92%) of the 7,900 species of amphipods described by then, in approximately 1,000 genera, divided among around 125 families. That concept of Gammaridea included almost all freshwater amphipods, while most of the members still were marine.
Paracalliopiidae is a family of amphipods, containing the following genera:
Photis is a genus of amphipod crustaceans, containing the following species:
Urothoidae is a family of small marine amphipod crustaceans. Members of the family are found worldwide and are mainly detritivores and interface grazers, though some are also facultative filter feeders.
Urothoe is a genus of very small marine amphipod crustaceans in the family Urothoidae. Members of the genus are found worldwide.
Nototropis is a genus of amphipod crustaceans, in the family, Atylidae, and was first described by Achille Costa in 1853.
Photidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans, containing the following genera:
Tyrinna evelinae is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.
Ericthonius is a genus of amphipods in the family Ischyroceridae. There are at least 20 described species in Ericthonius.
Urothoides is a genus of amphipod crustaceans, in the family Urothoidae. Members of this genus live at depths from 2.5 to 4564 meters below the surface, with about 202 occurrences.
Trischizostoma is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the monotypic family Trischizostomatidae.
Harpiniopsis is a genus of crustaceans in the family Phoxocephalidae. Species of this genus are found throughout the world. It was first described by Knud Stephensen in 1925.
Maeridae is a family of marine amphipods, which was first described by Taudl Krapp-Schickel in 2008.
Parawaldeckia is a genus of amphipod crustacean in the family, Lysianassidae. and was first described by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing in 1910. The type species is Parawaldeckia thomsoni.
Ceradocus is a genus of amphipods in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 1853 by Achille Costa. The type species is Ceradocus orchestiipes.
James Kenneth Lowry is a zoologist specialising in amphipods.
Elasmopus arafura is a marine species of amphipod in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 2011 by Lauren E. Hughes and James K. Lowry.
Elasmopus arrawarra is a marine species of amphipod in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 2006 by Lauren E. Hughes and James K. Lowry.
Elasmopus arafura is a marine species of amphipod in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 2011 by Lauren E. Hughes and James K. Lowry, from a specimen collected at "The Blow-holes", Point Quobba on an exposed intertidal rock shelf.