Ochlesidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Amphipoda
Subordo: Gammaridea

Familia: Ochlesidae
Genera (9): Antarctodius – Cryptodius – Curidia – Gordonodius – Meraldia – Ochlesis – Ochlesodius – Odius – Postodius
Name

Ochlesidae Stebbing, 1910: 581

Type genus: Ochlesis Stebbing, 1910, by monotypy.
Synonyms

Odiidae Coleman & Barnard, 1991: 262 [synonymised by Berge, Vader & Coleman (1999: 241)]

Type genus: Odius Liljeborg, 1865, by original designation.
References
Primary references

Stebbing, T.R.R. 1910. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. “Thetis,” off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Crustacea. Part V. Amphipoda. Australian Museum Memoir 4(12): 567–658 + plates xlvii–lx.
Coleman, C.O. & Barnard, J.L. 1991. Revision of Iphimediidae and similar families (Amphipoda: Gammaridea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 104(2): 253–268. BHL Reference page.
Berge, J., Vader, W. & Coleman, O. 1999. A cladistic analysis of the Amphipod families Ochlesidae and Odiidae, with description of a new species and genus. pp. 239-265. in Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis. Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 20-24, 1998, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Links

Ochlesidae in the World Register of Marine Species

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.[1] The family Odiidae has sometimes been subsumed into Ochlesidae.[1]

Four genera are included in the family:[1]

Curidia Thomas, 1983
Meraldia Barnard & Karaman, 1987
Ochlesis Stebbing, 1910
Ochlesodius Ledoyer, 1982

References

C. Oliver Coleman & James K. Lowry (2006). "Revision of the Ochlesidae sensu stricto, including five new Australian species (Crustacea: Amphipoda)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 6 (Electr. Suppl. 4): 1–57. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2005.06.001.