Deep-Sea taxon details
Maeridae Krapp-Schickel, 2008
475166 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:475166)
accepted
Family
- Genus Austromaera Lowry & Springthorpe, 2005
- Genus Bathyceradocus Pirlot, 1934
- Genus Ceradocoides Nicholls, 1938
- Genus Ceradocus A. Costa, 1853
- Genus Cuniculomaera Tandberg & Jażdżewska in Brandt, Chen, Engel, Esquete, Horton, Jażdżewska, Johannsen, Kaiser, Kihara, Knauber, Kniesz, Landschoff, Lörz, Machado, Martínez-Muñoz, Riehl, Serpell-Stevens, Sigwart, Tandberg, Tato, Tsuda, Vončina, Watanabe, Wenz & Williams, 2024
- Genus Elasmopus A. Costa, 1853
- Genus Maera Leach, 1814
- Genus Maerella Chevreux, 1911
- Genus Maeropsis Chevreux, 1920
- Genus Megaceradocus Mukai, 1979
- Genus Metaceradocoides Birstein & N. Vinogradova, 1960
- Genus Othomaera Krapp-Schickel, 2000
- Genus Papuadocus Corbari & Sorbe, 2015
- Genus Paraceradocus Stebbing, 1899
- Genus Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000
marine, brackish
Krapp-Schickel, T. 2008. What has happened with the Maera-clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda) during the last decades? Bolletino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona, 32, Botanica Zoologia: 3-32. [details] Available for editors 
Distribution Cosmopolitan.
Distribution Cosmopolitan. [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. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Maeridae Krapp-Schickel, 2008. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=475166 on 2025-11-16
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Maeridae Krapp-Schickel, 2008. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=475166 on 2025-11-16
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Krapp-Schickel, T. 2008. What has happened with the Maera-clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda) during the last decades? Bolletino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona, 32, Botanica Zoologia: 3-32. [details] Available for editors
context source (WoRCS) Navarro-Barranco, C.; Martínez, A.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Chebaane, S.; Digenis, M.; Plaitis, W.; Voultsiadou, E.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2023). Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge. <em>Diversity.</em> 15(12): 1180., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/12/1180 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Krapp-Schickel, T. 2008. What has happened with the Maera-clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda) during the last decades? Bolletino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona, 32, Botanica Zoologia: 3-32. [details] Available for editors
additional source Lowry, J. K.; Hughes, L. E. (2009). Maeridae, the Elasmopus group. In: Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (Eds) (2009) Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2260: 1-930.
note: Diagnosis of the Maeridae [details] Available for editors
context source (WoRCS) Navarro-Barranco, C.; Martínez, A.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Chebaane, S.; Digenis, M.; Plaitis, W.; Voultsiadou, E.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2023). Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge. <em>Diversity.</em> 15(12): 1180., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/12/1180 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Krapp-Schickel, T. 2008. What has happened with the Maera-clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda) during the last decades? Bolletino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona, 32, Botanica Zoologia: 3-32. [details] Available for editors
additional source Lowry, J. K.; Hughes, L. E. (2009). Maeridae, the Elasmopus group. In: Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (Eds) (2009) Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2260: 1-930.
note: Diagnosis of the Maeridae [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Cosmopolitan. [details]Remark Krapp-Schickel (2008a) synonymised Miramaera Lowry & Springthorpe, 2005 with Maeropsis Chevreux, 1919. Parapherusa Haswell, 1879b is included here, but it needs to be excluded from the Maeridae because the second antennae are slightly longer than the first, the anteroventral corner of the head is rounded and entire, the first gnathopods are apparently sexually dimorphic and the peduncle of uropod 1 has a distoventral spine and does not have a basofacial robust seta. [details]
