Stilipedidae (Family)

Overview

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Stilipedidae is a family of amphipods, containing the following genera:^1]

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^ Heather Holman & Les Watling (1983). "A revision of the Stilipedidae (Amphipoda)". Crustaceana 44 (1): 27?53. doi:10.1163/156854083X00037. JSTOR 20103799.

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Stilipedidae Holmes, 1908, Crustacea.net

Taxonomy

The Family Stilipedidae is a member of the Superfamily Pardaliscoidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Stilipedidae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
    - Branch: Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
      - Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
        Superphylum: Panarthropoda Cuvier
        Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
        Subphylum: Mandibulata Snodgrass, 1938
        Infraphylum: Crustaceomorpha (Chernyshev, 1960)
        Superclass: Crustacea (krus-TA-see-a) Pennant, 1777
        Class: Malacostraca Latreille, 1802
        Subclass: Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892
        Superorder: Peracarida Calman, 1904
        Order: Amphipoda Latreille, 1816 - Amphipods
        Suborder: Gammaridea Latreille, 1802 - Gammarid Amphipods
        Superfamily: Pardaliscoidea
        Family: Stilipedidae Holmes, 1908

The Family Stilipedidae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (3): Alexandrella · Bathypanoploea · Stilipes

Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in the Family Stilipedidae.

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012

Stilipedidae

Overview

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Taxonomy

Genera

Alexandrella

Bathypanoploea

Stilipes

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