Phliantidae
| Phliantidae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Suborder: | Gammaridea |
| Superfamily: | Talitroidea |
| Family: | Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899 |
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Phliantidae is a family of isopod-like amphipod crustaceans chiefly from the southern hemisphere.
Description
Members of the family Phliantidae are unusual among the order Amphipoda, because they have dorso-ventrally flattened bodies with a pronounced dorsal keel, rather than being flattened side-to-side.[1] Because of this, and various other factors, including the square-ended form of the rostrum, they resemble isopods.[2]
Distribution and ecology
Most species are found in the Southern Hemisphere, where they live on algae in the intertidal zone.[3]
Taxonomy
| External identifiers for Phliantidae | |
|---|---|
| Encyclopedia of Life | 1298 |
| ITIS | 94628 |
| WoRMS | 101402 |
| Also found in: Wikispecies | |
Phliantidae was originally proposed by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing in 1899 for a group that also contained the genera currently placed in the family Prophliantidae, while Temnophlias has also been moved from Phliantidae to its own monotypic families.[4] It contains the following genera:[5]
- Iphinotus Stebbing, 1899
- Palinnotus Stebbing, 1900
- Pariphinotus Kunkel, 1910
- Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1862
- Plioplateia Barnard, 1916
References
- ↑ Charles Oliver Coleman (2009). J. K. Lowry & A. A. Myers, ed. "Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia" (PDF). Zootaxa 2260: 766–770.
|chapter=ignored (help) - ↑ Sol Felty Light & James T. Carlton (2007). "Phliantidae". The Light and Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon (4th ed.). University of California Press. p. 558. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5.
- ↑ James K. Lowry (2003). "Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899". Peracarida : Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. Volume 2, Part 2 of Zoological catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malacostraca. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 221–223. ISBN 978-0-643-06902-2.
- ↑ Cristiana S. Serejo (2003). "Cladistic revision of talitroidean amphipods (Crustacea, Gammaridea), with a proposal of a new classification" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta 33: 551–586. doi:10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00163.x.
- ↑ Claude De Broyer, Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini (2010). J. Lowry, ed. "Phliantidae". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 9, 2010.