Talitridae

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: Senticaudata
Infraordo: Talitrida
Superfamilia: Talitroidea

Familia: Talitridae
Genera: Africorchestia – Agilestia – Albidiator – Americorchestia – Amphiatlantica – Aokiorchestia – Arcitalitrus – Asiaorchestia – Atlantorchestoidea – Australorchestia – Austropacifica – Austrotroides – Bellorchestia – Bousfieldia – Brevitalitrus – Britorchestia – Bulychevia – †Caecorchestia – Calviator – Canariorchestia – Capeorchestia – Cariborchestia – Caribotroides – Cerrorchestia – Chelorchestia – Chevreuxiana – Chroestia – Clippertonia – Cocorchestia – Cryptorchestia – Curiotalitrus – Dallwitzia – Dana – Defeo – Demaorchestia – Dendrorchestia – Derzhavinia – Deshayesorchestia – Ditmorchestia – Dracorchestia – Eorchestia – Ezotinorchestia – Fleuria – Floresorchestia – Galaporchestia – Gazia – Gondwanorchestia – Hawaiorchestia – Hermaniator – Hermesorchestia – Houlia – Hurleyella – Indiorchestia – Insularorchestia – Ignamborchestia – Indiorchestia – Insulariator – Kaalorchestia – Kanikania – Kellyduncania – Keratroides – Kokuborchestia – Lanorchestia – Laniporchestia – Laurenia – Leptorchestia – Leslieorchestia – Lowryella – Lutruwitiator – Macarorchestia – Makawe – Mauritiorchestia – Megalorchestia – Mexorchestia – Microrchestia – Minamitalitrus – Miyamotoia – Mizuhorchestia – Morinoia – Myanmarorchestia – Mysticotalitrus – Neorchestia – Nipponorchestia – Notorchestia – Oamaru – Omaiorchestia – Opunorchestia – Orchestia – Orchestiella – Orchestoidea – Paciforchestia – Palmorchestia – Parorchestia – Persianorchestia – Pickorchestia – Pictonorchestia – Platorchestia – Protaustrotroides – Protorchestia – Pseudorchestoidea – Puhuruhuru – Pyatakovestia – Sardorchestia – Sinbadorchestia – Sinorchestia – Snaresorchestia – Spelaeorchestia – Speziorchestia – Swaziator – Talitriator – Talitroides – Talitrus – Talorchestia – Tasmanella – Tasmanorchestia – Tethorchestia – Tongorchestia – Transorchestia – Traskorchestia – Trinorchestia – Tropicorchestia – Uhlorchestia – Vallorchestia – Vietorchestia – Waematau – Wairua – Yamatorchestia
Name

Talitridae Rafinesque, 1815: 101

Type genus: Talitrus Latreille, 1802
References

Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palerme: L'Imprimerie de Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp. BHL Reference page.
Davolos, D., Matthaeis, E. de, Latella, L. & Vonk, R. 2017. Cryptorchestia ruffoi sp. n. from the island of Rhodes (Greece), revealed by morphological and phylogenetic analysis (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae). ZooKeys 652: 37–54. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.652.11252. Reference page.
Davolos, D., de Matthaeis, E., Latella, L., Tarocco, M., Özbek, M. & Vonk, R. 2018. On the molecular and morphological evolution of continental and insular Cryptorchestia species, with an additional description of C. garbinii (Talitridae). ZooKeys 783: 37–54. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.783.26179 Reference page.
Duncan, K.W. 1994: Terrestrial Talitridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 31. ISBN 0-478-04533-6. Online. Reference page.
Fenwick, G.; Webber, R. 2008: Identification of New Zealand’s terrestrial amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae). Tuhinga, 19: 29–56. PDF
Friend, J.A. 1987: The terrestrial amphipods (Amphipoda: Talitridae) of Tasmania: systematics and zoogeography. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement (7): 1–85. abstract
Hou, Z. & Zhao, S-Y. 2017. A new terrestrial talitrid genus, Myanmarorchestia, with two new species from Myanmar (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae). ZooKeys 705: 15—39. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.705.15045. Reference page.
Hughes, L.E. & Lowry, J.K. 2017. Hermesorchestia alastairi gen. et sp. nov. from Australia (Talitridae: Senticaudata: Amphipoda: Crustacea). Zootaxa 4311(4): 491–506. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.4.3. Reference page.
Lowry, J.K. 2011: Dana, replacement name for the New Zealand talitrid amphipod genus Tara Duncan, 1994 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae), preoccupied by Tara Peckham & Peckham, 1886 (Araneae, Salticidae, Amycinae, Astiini). Zootaxa 2912: 68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2912.1.6 Open access. Reference page.
Lowry, J.K.; Bopiah, A. 2013: The talitrid amphipods of Tonga (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae). Zootaxa 3681(4): 347–370. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.4.2 Reference page.
Lowry, J.K. & Baldzani, S. 2016. New talitrids from South Africa (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitroidea, Talitridae) with notes on their ecology. Zootaxa 4144(2): 151–174. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.1. Reference page.
Lowry, J.K.; Coleman, C.O. 2011: Africorchestia a new genus of sand-hoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from western Africa and south-western Europe. Zootaxa, 2825: 55–68. Preview PDF
Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. 2019. New genera of Talitridae in the revised Superfamily Talitroidea Bulycheva 1957 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata). Zootaxa 4553(1): 1–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4553.1.1 Paywall Reference page.
Lowry, J.K., Myers, A.A. & Nakano, T. 2019. Replacement names for four preoccupied talitrid genus-group names proposed by Lowry & Myers in 2019 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata). Zootaxa 4615(2): 395–396. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4615.2.11 Paywall Reference page.
Lowry, J.K. & Springthorpe, R.T. 2015: Coastal Talitridae (Amphipoda: Talitroidea) from north-western Australia to Darwin with a revision of the genus Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart, 2010. Zootaxa 3985(2): 151–202. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Miyamoto, H.; Morino, H. 2010: Taxonomic studies on the Talitridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of Taiwan. IV. The genera Paciforchestia and Lanorchestia gen. nov. Species diversity, 15(3-4): 155–167. abstract only seen
Momtazi, F., Lowry, J.K. & Hekmatara, M. 2017. Persianorchestia, a new talitrid genus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from Gulf of Oman, Iran. Zootaxa 4238(1): 119–126. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.9. Reference page.
Serejo, C.S. 2009: Talitridae. pp. 892–903 in Lowry, J.K.; Myers, A.A. (eds.) Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef. Zootaxa, 2260: 1–930. Abstract & excerpt PDF
White, K.N.; Lowry, J.K.; Morino, H. 2013: A new cave-dwelling talitrid genus and species from Japan (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae). Zootaxa 3682(2): 240–248. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.2.2 Reference page.
Wildish, D.J. & LeCroy, S.E. 2014. Mexorchestia: a new genus of talitrid amphipod (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae) from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, with the description of a new species and two new subspecies. Zootaxa 3856(4): 555–577. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.4.5 Reference page.
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Talitridae in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names
English: terrestrial amphipods, landhoppers
polski: zmieraczkowate

Talitridae is a family of amphipods. Terrestrial species are often referred to as landhoppers and beach dwellers are called sandhoppers or sand fleas. The name sand flea is misleading, though, because these talitrid amphipods are not siphonapterans (true fleas), do not bite people, and are not limited to sandy beaches.[1]

Marine amphipods are often washed up in the strandline, but die rapidly on drying out. Talitrids differ in being able to survive for a long time out of water; some Southern Hemisphere species are entirely terrestrial.[2]

It contains these genera:[3]

Austropacifica Lowry & Springthorpe, 2019
Floresorchestia Bousfield, 1984
Gazia Lowry & Springthorpe, 2019
Americorchestia Bousfield, 1991
Asiaorchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Britorchestia Lowry & Bopiah, 2012
Persianorchestia Momtazi, Lowry & Hekmatara, 2017
Pseudorchestoidea Bousfield, 1982
Sardorchestia Ruffo in Tafani, Ugolini, Bazzicalupo, Mengoni & Ruffo, 2004
Africorchestia Lowry & Coleman, 2011
Amphiatlantica Lowry & Myers, 2019
Aokiorchestia Morino, 2020
Atlantorchestoidea Serejo, 2004
Australorchestia Serejo & Lowry, 2008
Bellorchestia Serejo & Lowry, 2008
Bulychevia Lowry & Myers, 2019
†Caecorchestia Hegna & Lazo-Wasem in Hegna, Lazo-Wasem, Serrano-Sánchez & Barragán, 2020
Canariorchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Capeorchestia Lowry & Baldanzi, 2016
Cariborchestia Smith, 1998
Chelorchestia Bousfield, 1984
Chevreuxiana Lowry & Myers, 2019
Chroestia Marsden & Fenwick, 1984
Clippertonia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Cryptorchestia Lowry & Fanini, 2013
Dallwitzia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Defeo Lowry & Myers, 2019
Derzhavinia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Deshayesorchestia Ruffo, 2004
Ditmorchestia Morino & Miyamoto, 2015
Ezotinorchestia Morino & Miyamoto, 2016
Galaporchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Gondwanorchestia Lowry, Myers & Pérez-Schultheiss, 2020
Hermesorchestia Hughes & Lowry, 2017
Houlia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Indiorchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Kaalorchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Kokuborchestia Morino & Miyamoto, 2015
Laniporchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Lanorchestia Miyamoto & Morino, 2010
Leptorchestia Morino, 2020
Lowryella Morino & Miyamoto, 2016
Macarorchestia Stock, 1989
Megalorchestia Brandt, 1851
Mexorchestia Wildish & LeCroy, 2014
Minamitalitrus White, Lowry & Morino, 2013
Miyamotoia Morino, 2020
Mizuhorchestia Morino, 2014
Morinoia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Nipponorchestia Morino & Miyamoto, 2015
Notorchestia Serejo & Lowry, 2008
Opunorchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Orchestia Leach, 1814
Orchestoidea Nicolet, 1849
Paciforchestia Bousfield, 1982
Palmorchestia Stock & Martin, 1988
Pickorchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Pictonorchestia Lowry & Springthorpe, 2021
Platorchestia Bousfield, 1982
Pyatakovestia Morino & Miyamoto, 2015
Sinorchestia Miyamoto & Morino, 1999
Speziorchestia Lowry & Myers, 2019
Talitrus Latreille, 1802
Talorchestia Dana, 1852
Tethorchestia Bousfield, 1984
Tongorchestia Lowry & Bopiah, 2013
Transorchestia Bousfield, 1982
Traskorchestia Bousfield, 1982
Trinorchestia Bousfield, 1982
Tropicorchestia Lowry & Springthorpe, 2015
Vallorchestia Lowry, 2012
Vietorchestia Dang & Le, 2011
Yamatorchestia Takahashi & Morino, 2020
Protaustrotroides Bousfield, 1984