| Maeridae | |
|---|---|
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| Ceradocus sellickensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Superfamily: | Hadzioidea |
| Family: | Maeridae Krapp-Schickel, 2008 |
Maeridae is a family of marine amphipods, which was first described by Taudl Krapp-Schickel in 2008. [1] [2]
Accepted genera: [1]
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.
Corophiidae is a family of amphipods, containing the following genera:
Dexaminidae is a family of amphipods. It contains the following genera:
Ochlesidae is a family of amphipods. They are very small, often less than 1.5 millimetres (0.06 in) long, and are found mainly in tropical and subtropical areas of the Southern Hemisphere. The family Odiidae has sometimes been subsumed into Ochlesidae.
Oedicerotidae is a family of amphipods. It comprises the following genera:
Lysianassidae is a family of marine amphipods, containing the following genera:
Paracalliopiidae is a family of amphipods, containing the following genera:
Leucothoe is a genus of amphipods in the family Leucothoidae. It contains the following species:
Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.
Talorchestia is a genus of amphipod of the family Talitridae, containing the following species:
Photis is a genus of amphipod crustaceans, containing the following species:
Pontogeneiidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans, containing the following genera:
Atylidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans, containing the following genera:
Stegocephalidae is a little-studied family of amphipods belonging to the suborder Gammaridea.
Photidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans, containing the following genera:
Parhyale is a genus of amphipod crustaceans, containing the following species:
Stenothoidae is a family of arthropods in the order Amphipoda.
Trischizostoma is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the monotypic family Trischizostomatidae.
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.
Data related to Maeridae at Wikispecies