A Phylogeny and Classification of the Amphipoda with the establishment of the new order Ingolfiellida (Crustacea: Peracarida)

Abstract

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Amphipod family distributions around Iceland

“…Another species, A. stebbingi Bonnier, 1896, described from bathyal muddy bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay, is currently considered a junior synonym of A. hamatipes . However, Lowry and Myers (2017) note that the genus Argissa is in need of revision since the distribution, depth range and morphological variation attributed to A. hamatipes are implausible when attributed to a single species. In the southern Bay of Biscay, A. hamatipes was collected with a suprabenthic sledge on sandy and muddy sand bottoms of the continental shelf (31-179 m), with a decreasing frequency of occurrence with depth (Sorbe 1984) and also at bathyal depths (711-1098 m) on muddy bottoms (Dauvin and Sorbe 1995, Frutos and Sorbe 2014a, Sorbe and Elizalde 2014).…”

“…The recent revision of Lowry and Myers (2017) has greatly restricted the concept of the Lysianassoidea to 130 genera in 12 families, where formerly the superfamily was composed of 22 families, 173 genera, and 1042 species. Lysianassoids range from a few millimetres in body length to the largest known amphipod, the 34 cm plus Alicella gigantea (Chevreux, 1899) which occurs in the deep North Atlantic and Pacific.…”

“…All specimens selected as molecular vouchers (Jazdzewska et al 2018) will be registered in the ZMH. At the time of manuscript preparation, the higher classification of the Amphipoda was in a state of reassessment (Lowry and Myers 2017). Our paper follows a conservative classification to allow preparation of the material in line with the World Amphipoda Database as of May 2017 (Horton et al 2017).…”

A dataset on the species composition of amphipods (Crustacea) in a Mexican marine national park: Alacranes Reef, Yucatan

“…Winfield et al (2007), Ortiz et al (2014). The taxonomical arrangement used herein follows Lowry and Myers (2017). Nine species were identified as possibly new species and were represented at the genus category (i.e.…”

The Senticaudata, a suborder of the Amphipoda – A commentary on d’Udekem d’Acoz and Verheye (2017)

“…The paper has been cited in at least 115 publications (Google Scholar). It has recently been included in a new phylogenetic classification of the Amphipoda (Lowry and Myers 2017). …”