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WRiMS taxon detailsCrangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973
430454 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:430454)
accepted
Family
Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. <em>Cornell University Press, Ithaca.</em> 312 pp.
page(s): 67; note: Original spelling: Crangonycidae. Emended by Bousfield (1977) [details] Available for editors 
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. Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430454 on 2026-05-07
Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430454 on 2026-05-07
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original description
Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. <em>Cornell University Press, Ithaca.</em> 312 pp.
page(s): 67; note: Original spelling: Crangonycidae. Emended by Bousfield (1977) [details] Available for editors taxonomy source Bousfield E.L. & Holsinger J.R. (1989). A new crangonyctid amphipod crustacean from hypogean fresh waters of Oregon. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 67, 963-968., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z89-139 page(s): 963; note: with key to genera [details] Available for editors taxonomy source Zhang, J.; Holsinger, J. R. (2003). Systematics of the freshwater amphipod genus Crangonyx (Crangonyctidae) in North America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, Memoir.</em> 6, 274 pp. page(s): 5; note: with composition of the genus, including Palaeogammarus [details] Available for editors additional source Kornobis, E.; Pálsson, S.; Sidorov, D. A.; Holsinger, J. R.; Kristjánsson, B. K. (2011). Molecular taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of two groundwater amphipods, Crangonyx islandicus and Crymostygius thingvallensis, endemic to Iceland. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 58(3): 527-539., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.010 note: mtDNA COI, 16S, nDNA 18S, 28S [details] Available for editors additional source Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Sidorov, D. & Gontcharov, A. (2019). Adrift across tectonic plates: Molecular phylogenetics supports the ancient Laurasian origin of old limnic crangonyctid amphipods. <em>Organisms, Diversity & Evolution.</em> 19: 191-207., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13127-019-00401-7 page(s): 192, 193, 195, 196, fig. 2, 198, Fig. 3, 199, Fig. 4, 201, 202, 203; note: Phylogeny, biogeography [details] additional source Palatov, D. M.; Marin, I. N. (2020). A new genus of the family Crangonyctidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the Palaearctic, with descriptions of two new species from the foothills of the Altai mountains. <em>Зоологический журнал.</em> 99(10): 1160-1186., available online at https://doi.org/10.31857/s004451342010013x page(s): 1160-1164, 1170, 1178, 1180, Fig. 17, 1184 [details] Available for editors additional source Marin, I. N.; Palatov, D. M. (2021). Volgonyx gen.n. and Pontonyx gen.n., two new genera of the family Crangonyctidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the southeastern Europe. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 30(1): 43-61., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.05 page(s): 44, fig. 1; note: molecular phylogeny [details] Available for editors additional source Marin, I. N.; Palatov, D. M. (2021). The hidden diversity of the genus Lyurella Derzhavin, 1939 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae): four new species from the subterranean habitats of the northwestern Caucasus, Russia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5006(1): 127-168., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.17 page(s): 127, 131 [details] Available for editors additional source Palatov, D. M.; Marin, I. N. (2021). When males and females belong to different genera: an interesting case of Synurella/Pontonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) co-occurrence. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 30(4): 443-472., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.4.03 page(s): 443, fig. 1, 447, 471; note: affinities; molecular phylogeny [details] Available for editors additional source Cannizzaro, A. G.; Daniels, J. D.; Berg, D. J. (2021). Phylogenetic analyses of a new freshwater amphipod reveal polyphyly within the Holarctic family Crangonyctidae, with revision of the genus <i>Synurella</i>. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 195(4): 1100-1115., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab092 page(s): 1, 2, 4, 12-14; note: molecular phylogeny; biogeography; systematics [details] Available for editors additional source Tomikawa, K.; Nishimoto, Y.; Nakahama, N.; Nakano, T. (2022). A New Species of the Genus Pseudocrangonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pseudocrangonyctidae) from Yonaguni Island, Southwestern Japan, and Historical Biogeographic Insights of Pseudocrangonyctids. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 39(5)., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs220030 page(s): 1 [details] Available for editors additional source Marin, I. N.; Yanygina, L. V.; Ostroukhova, S. A.; Palatov, D. M. (2023). A new minute species of the genus Palearcticarellus Palatov et Marin, 2020 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) from a high-altitude mountain spring of the Altai Mountains (Russia). <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 32(4): 390-398., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.32.4.03 page(s): 390, 392 [details] Available for editors additional source Holsinger J.R. (1989). Allocrangonyctidae and Pseudocrangonyctidae, Two New Families of Holarctic Subterranean Amphipod Crustaceans (Gammaridea), with Comments on their Phylogenetic and Zoogeographic Relationships. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington., 102, 4, 947-959. page(s): 947, 948 [details] Available for editors additional source Englisch, U.; Coleman, C.O.; Wagele, J.W. (2003). First observations on the phylogeny of the families Gammaridae, Crangonyctidae, Melitidae, Niphargidae, Megaluropidae and Oedicerotidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea), using small subunit rDNA gene sequences. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 37(20): 2461-2486., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930210144352 page(s): 2469, fig. 1; note: 18S gene phylogeny [details] Available for editors additional source Bousfield, E. L. (1982). Amphipoda. <em>Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New-York.</em> 254-294. page(s): 263 [details] additional source Väinölä, R., Witt, J.D.S., Grabowski, M., Bradbury, J.H., Jazdzewski, K., Sket, B. (2008). Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater. In: Balian E et al.(eds) Freshwater animal diversity assessment. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 595: 241-255. page(s): 244, table 1; 246, table 2; note: in lists [details] Available for editors additional source Niemiller, M. L.; Cannizzaro, A. G.; Sawicki, T. R.; Culver, D. C. (2024). A new species of Stygobromus Cope, 1872 (Amphipoda, Crangonyctidae) from a hypotelminorheic seepage spring in Washington, D.C., USA. <em>Subterranean Biology.</em> 48: 117-146., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.48.112984 page(s): 123 [details] Available for editors redescription Lowry, J. K.; Myers, A. A. (2013). A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3610(1): 1-80., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03610p080.pdf page(s): 47 [details] Available for editors redescription Holsinger J.R. (1977). A review of the systematics of the holarctic amphipod family Crangonyctidae. Crustaceana, suppl. 4, 244-281; 15 figs.;. page(s): 245; note: emendation of the diagnosis [details] Available for editors status source Bousfield, E. L. (1977). A new look at the systematics of Gammaroidean Amphipods of the World. <em>Crustaceana supplement.</em> 4: 282-316. page(s): 300; note: Emendation of the original incorrect spelling (Crangonycidae) [details] Available for editors status source Copilaş-Ciocianu, D.; Prokin, A.; Esin, E.; Shkil, F.; Zlenko, D.; Markevich, G.; Sidorov, D. (2024). The subarctic ancient Lake El'gygytgyn harbours the world's northernmost 'limnostygon communityʼ and reshuffles crangonyctoid systematics (Crustacea, Amphipoda). <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 38(12)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is24001 [details] Available for editors |
