WoRMS taxon details
Didymochelia K.H. Barnard, 1931
176806 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:176806)
accepted
Genus
Didymochelia spongicola K.H. Barnard, 1931 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Barnard, K. H. (1931). Diagnosis of new genera and species of amphipod Crustacea collected during the “Discovery” Investigations, 1925-1927. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 10(7): 425-430., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933108673327 [details] Available for editors 
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Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2026). World Amphipoda Database. Didymochelia K.H. Barnard, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=176806 on 2026-02-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Barnard, K. H. (1931). Diagnosis of new genera and species of amphipod Crustacea collected during the “Discovery” Investigations, 1925-1927. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 10(7): 425-430., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933108673327 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
[request]basis of record De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Lowry J.K. & Stoddart H.E. (1995c). A new species of Didymochelia from New Caledonia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Didymocheliidae). Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle., 4è sér., 17, 1-2, pp. 193-200;3 figs., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.290321 [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource Thurston M.H. (1997). Apodidymochelia, a new genus of gammaridean amphipod from the tropical Atlantic Ocean (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Didymocheliidae). Journal of Natural History, 31, 1067-1073., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939700770561 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]identification resource Thurston M.H. (1997). Apodidymochelia, a new genus of gammaridean amphipod from the tropical Atlantic Ocean (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Didymocheliidae). Journal of Natural History, 31, 1067-1073., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939700770561 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
