Gammaridea

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iGammaridea
Hyalella azteca
Hyalella azteca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Suborder: Gammaridea
Latreille, 1802
Families
Many, see text

Gammaridea is a suborder of small, shrimp-like crustaceans. It contains about 5,700 of the 7,000 described species of amphipods, in approximately 1,000 genera, divided between around 125 families. Gammaridea includes all freshwater amphipods, such as Gammarus pulex.

[edit] Families

  • Paracrangonyctidae
  • Paramelitidae
  • Pardaliscidae
  • Perthiidae
  • Phliantidae
  • Phoxocephalidae
  • Phoxocephalopsidae
  • Phreatogammaridae
  • Platyischnopidae
  • Pleustidae
  • Plioplateiidae
  • Podoprionidae
  • Pontogammaridae
  • Pontogeneiidae
  • Pontoporeiidae
  • Pseudamphilochidae
  • Pseudocrangonyctidae
  • Pseudoniphargidae
  • Salentinellidae
  • Scopelocheiridae
  • Sebidae
  • Sicafodiidae
  • Sinurothoidae
  • Stegocephalidae
  • Stenothoidae
  • Sternophysingidae
  • Stilipedidae
  • Synopiidae
  • Talitridae
  • Temnophliantidae
  • Trischizostomatidae
  • Tulearidae
  • Typhlogammaridae
  • Uristidae
  • Urohaustoriidae
  • Urothoidae
  • Valettidae
  • Vicmusiidae
  • Vitjazianidae
  • Wandinidae
  • Zobrachoidae
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