Gammaridea

Taxobox
name = Gammaridea

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Gammarus roeselii" (Gammaridae)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
subclassis = Eumalacostraca
superordo = Peracarida
ordo = Amphipoda
subordo = Gammaridea
subordo_authority = Latreille, 1802
subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies
subdivision = 21, see text

Gammaridea is a suborder of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the order Amphipoda. It contains about 5,700 of the 7,000 described species of amphipods, in approximately 1,000 genera, divided between around 125 families. Gammaridea includes almost all freshwater amphipods, such as "Gammarus pulex".

ystematics

Superfamily Ampeliscoidea
* Family AmpeliscidaeSuperfamily Clarencioidea
* Family ClarenciidaeSuperfamily Crangonyctoidea
* Family Allocrangonyctidae
* Family Artesiidae
* Family Bogidiellidae
* Family Crangonyctidae
* Family Crymostygiidae
* Family Falklandellidae
* Family Kotumsaridae - tentatively placed here
* Family Neoniphargidae
* Family Niphargidae
* Family Paracrangonyctidae
* Family Paramelitidae
* Family Perthiidae
* Family Phreatogammaridae
* Family Pseudocrangonyctidae
* Family Pseudoniphargidae
* Family SternophysingidaeSuperfamily Dexaminoidea
* Family Dexaminidae
* Family LepechinellidaeSuperfamily Eusiroidea
* Family Amathillopsidae
* Family Bateidae
* Family Calliopiidae
* Family Eusiridae
* Family Gammaracanthidae
* Family Gammarellidae
* Family PontogeneiidaeSuperfamily Gammaroidea
* Family Acanthogammaridae
* Family Acanthonotozomatidae
* Family Anisogammaridae
* Family Baikalogammaridae
* Family Behningiellidae
* Family Cardenioidae
* Family Caspicolidae
* Family Eulimnogammaridae
* Family Gammaridae
* Family Gammaroporeiidae
* Family Iphigenellidae
* Family Macrohectopidae
* Family Mesogammaridae
* Family Micruropodidae
* Family Pachyschesidae
* Family Pallaseidae
* Family Pontogammaridae
* Family TyphlogammaridaeSuperfamily Hadzioidea
* Family Carangoliopsidae
* Family Hadziidae
* Family Melitidae
* Family MetacrangonyctidaeSuperfamily Iphimedioidea
* Family Acanthonotozomellidae
* Family Dikwidae
* Family Epimeriidae
* Family Iphimediidae
* Family Ochlesidae
* Family VicmusiidaeSuperfamily Kurioidea
* Family KuriidaeSuperfamily Leucothoidea
* Family Anamixidae
* Family Leucothoidae
* Family PleustidaeSuperfamily Liljborgioidea
* Family Colomastigidae
* Family Liljeborgiidae
* Family Salentinellidae
* Family SebidaeSuperfamily Lysianassoidea
* Family Amaryllididae [Lowry, J.K.& H.E.Stoddart 2002. The Amaryllidae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea). "Records of the Australian Museum" 54:129-214.]
* Family Aristiidae
* Family Cyphocarididae
* Family Endevouridae
* Family Eurytheneidae
* Family Lysianassidae
* Family Opisidae
* Family Podoprionidae
* Family Scopelocheiridae
* Family Trischizostomatidae
* Family Uristidae
* Family WandinidaeSuperfamily Melphidippoidea
* Family Megaluropidae
* Family MelphidippidaeSuperfamily Oedicerotoidea
* Family Exoedicerotidae
* Family Oedicerotidae
* Family ParacalliopiidaeSuperfamily Pardaliscoidea
* Family Astyridae
* Family Hyperiopsidae
* Family Pardaliscidae
* Family Sicafodiidae
* Family Stilipedidae
* Family VitjazianidaeSuperfamily Phoxocephaloidea
* Family Cheidae
* Family Condukiidae
* Family Haustoriidae
* Family Ipanemidae
* Family Phoxocephalidae
* Family Phoxocephalopsidae
* Family Platyischnopidae
* Family Pontoporeiidae
* Family Sinurothoidae
* Family Urohaustoriidae
* Family Urothoidae
* Family ZobrachoidaeSuperfamily Stegocephaloidea
* Family StegocephalidaeSuperfamily Stenothoidea
* Family Amphilochidae
* Family Bolttsiidae
* Family Cyproideidae
* Family Pseudamphilochidae
* Family StenothoidaeSuperfamily Synopioidea
* Family Argissidae
* Family SynopiidaeSuperfamily Talitroidea - includes Phliantoidea
* Family Biancolinidae
* Family Ceinidae
* Family Chiltoniidae
* Family Dogielinotidae
* Family Eophliantidae
* Family Phliantidae
* Family Plioplateiidae
* Family Talitridae
* Family Temnophliantidae"Incertae sedis"
* Family Cressidae
* Family Didymocheliidae
* Family Iciliidae
* Family Lafystiidae
* Family Laphystiopsidae
* Family Maxillipiidae
* Family Nihotungidae
* Family Pagetinidae
* Family Tulearidae
* Family Valettidae

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