WoRMS taxon details
Sicafodia Just, 2004
390998 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:390998)
accepted
Genus
Sicafodia stylos Just, 2004 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Just, J. (2004). Sicafodiidae, fam. nov. for Sicafodia stylos, gen. nov., sp. nov., from the marine bathyal of south-eastern Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea). <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 61(1), 65-73., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2004.61.5 [details] Available for editors 
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Etymology The name of the genus is derived from Latin, sica, dagger, and fodio, to stab, hence ‘the one that stabs with a...
Etymology The name of the genus is derived from Latin, sica, dagger, and fodio, to stab, hence ‘the one that stabs with a dagger’, alluding to the shape of the mouthpart bundle. Feminine. [details]
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. Sicafodia Just, 2004. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390998 on 2026-05-11
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Nomenclature
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Just, J. (2004). Sicafodiidae, fam. nov. for Sicafodia stylos, gen. nov., sp. nov., from the marine bathyal of south-eastern Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea). <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 61(1), 65-73., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2004.61.5 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Campean, A. J.; Coleman, C. O. (2017). A new species of Sicafodia Just, 2004 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Sicafodiidae) from the North Atlantic. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0635-1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yamamoto, D., M. Kodama & S. Kojima. (2025). A new species each of Sicafodia Just, 2004 (Amphipoda: Sicafodiidae) and of its parasite <i>Rhizorhina</i> Hansen, 1892 (Copepoda: Nicothoidae) from the deep bathyal off northeastern Japan. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 45(2):1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruaf027 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Yamamoto, D., M. Kodama & S. Kojima. (2025). A new species each of Sicafodia Just, 2004 (Amphipoda: Sicafodiidae) and of its parasite <i>Rhizorhina</i> Hansen, 1892 (Copepoda: Nicothoidae) from the deep bathyal off northeastern Japan. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 45(2):1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruaf027 [details] Available for editors
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Etymology The name of the genus is derived from Latin, sica, dagger, and fodio, to stab, hence ‘the one that stabs with a dagger’, alluding to the shape of the mouthpart bundle. Feminine. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | Shitotsu-yokoebi-zoku | [details] |
