Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Amphipoda
Subordo: Corophiidea
Infraordo: Corophiida
Superfamilia: Corophioidea
Familia: Ampithoidae
Subfamiliae: Ampithoinae - Exampithoinae
Name
Ampithoidae Boeck, 1870
References
Hughes, L.E.; Lowry, J.K. 2009: Ampithoidae. Pp. 153-219 in Lowry, J.K.; Myers, A.A. (eds.) Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef. Zootaxa, 2260: 1–930. Abstract & excerpt PDF
Hughes, L.E.; Peart, R.A. 2013: New species and new records of Ampithoidae (Peracarida: Amphipoda) from Australian waters. Zootaxa 3719(1): 1–102. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3719.1.1 Reference page.
Peart, R.A.; Hughes, L.E. 2014: Ampithoid amphipods from the South Pacific: Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia and New Caledonia. Journal of natural history 48(13-14): 739–861. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.825027 Reference page.
Peart, R.A. & Lörz, A-N. 2018. Ampithoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from New Zealand. ZooKeys 733: 25–48. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.733.14052. Reference page.
Ampithoidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans. The family has a worldwide distribution as algal dwellers. They commonly create tube-shaped nests on their host plants or algae which serve as both shelter and food. Young ampithoids develop from eggs to a larval stage within their mother's brood-pouch, formed by the appendages of her abdomen.
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera in this family:-
Amphithoides Kossmann, 1880
Amphitholina Ruffo, 1953
Ampithoe Leach, 1814
Austrothoe Peart, 2014
Biancolina Della Valle, 1893
Cymadusa Savigny, 1816
Exampithoe K.H. Barnard, 1926
Macropisthopus K.H. Barnard, 1916
Paradusa Ruffo, 1969
Paragrubia Chevreux, 1901
Paranexes Peart, 2014
Pleonexes Spence Bate, 1857
Plumithoe Barnard & Karaman, 1991
Pseudamphithoides Ortiz, 1976
Pseudopleonexes Conlan, 1982
Sunamphitoe Spence Bate, 1857
See also
Pseudamphithoides incurvaria
References
Lowry, J. (2010). Lowry J (ed.). "Ampithoidae Boeck, 1871". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
Further reading
Cerda, Osvaldo; Hinojosa, Iván A.; Thiel, Martin (June 2010). "Nest-Building Behavior by the Amphipod Peramphithoe femorata (Krøyer) on the Kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Linnaeus) C. Agardh From Northern-Central Chile". The Biological Bulletin. 218 (3): 248–258. doi:10.1086/BBLv218n3p248. PMID 20570848. S2CID 12067862.
Peart, Rachael A.; Lörz, Anne-Nina (26 January 2018). "Ampithoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from New Zealand". ZooKeys (733): 25–48. doi:10.3897/zookeys.733.14052. PMC 5799742. PMID 29416406.
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