Phliantidae

Phliantidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Superorder:	Peracarida
Order:	Amphipoda
Suborder:	Gammaridea
Superfamily:	Talitroidea
Family:	Phliantidae; Stebbing, 1899
Genera
	See text.

Phliantidae is a family of isopod-like amphipod crustaceans chiefly from the southern hemisphere.

Description[]

Members of the family Phliantidae are unusual among the order Amphipoda, because they have dorso-ventrally flattened bodies with a pronounced dorsal keel, rather than being flattened side-to-side.^[1] Because of this, and various other factors, including the square-ended form of the rostrum, they resemble isopods.^[2]

Distribution and ecology[]

Most species are found in the Southern Hemisphere, where they live on algae in the intertidal zone.^[3]

Taxonomy[]

Phliantidae was originally proposed by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing in 1899 for a group that also contained the genera currently placed in the family , while has also been moved from Phliantidae to its own monotypic families.^[4] It contains the following genera:^[5]

Stebbing, 1899
Stebbing, 1900
Kunkel, 1910
Bate & Westwood, 1862
Plioplateia Barnard, 1916

References[]

^ Charles Oliver Coleman (2009). "Phliantidae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2260: 766–770.
^ Sol Felty Light & James T. Carlton (2007). "Phliantidae". The Light and Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon (4th ed.). University of California Press. p. 558. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5.
^ James K. Lowry (2003). "Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899". Peracarida : Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. Volume 2, Part 2 of Zoological catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malacostraca. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 221–223. ISBN 978-0-643-06902-2.
^ Cristiana S. Serejo (2003). "Cladistic revision of talitroidean amphipods (Crustacea, Gammaridea), with a proposal of a new classification" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. 33 (6): 551–586. doi:10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00163.x. S2CID 85968161.
^ Claude De Broyer, Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini (2010). J. Lowry (ed.). "Phliantidae". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 9, 2010.

[1] Charles Oliver Coleman (2009). "Phliantidae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2260: 766–770.

[2] Sol Felty Light & James T. Carlton (2007). "Phliantidae". The Light and Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon (4th ed.). University of California Press. p. 558. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5.

[3] James K. Lowry (2003). "Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899". Peracarida : Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. Volume 2, Part 2 of Zoological catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malacostraca. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 221–223. ISBN 978-0-643-06902-2.

[4] Cristiana S. Serejo (2003). "Cladistic revision of talitroidean amphipods (Crustacea, Gammaridea), with a proposal of a new classification" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. 33 (6): 551–586. doi:10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00163.x. S2CID 85968161.

[5] Claude De Broyer, Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini (2010). J. Lowry (ed.). "Phliantidae". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 9, 2010.

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