MSBIAS taxon details
Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859
431462 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:431462)
accepted
Genus
masculine
Bate, C. S. (1859). On the genus <i>Niphargus</i> (Schiödte). <em>Proceedings of the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association.</em> 1: 237-240. [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. Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431462 on 2026-06-15
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431462 on 2026-06-15
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Bate, C. S. (1859). On the genus <i>Niphargus</i> (Schiödte). <em>Proceedings of the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association.</em> 1: 237-240. [details]
taxonomy source Schellenberg, A. (1936). Die Amphipodengattungen um Crangonyx, ihre Verbreitung und ihre Arten. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 22:31-43.
page(s): 31-35; note: systematics; key; affinities [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum Natural History: London.</em> i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.20901
page(s): 178 [details]
taxonomy source 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
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: diagnosis update [details] Available for editors
additional source Sidorov, D. A.;Pankov, N. N.;Holsinger, J. R.;. (2012). Distribution and ecology of the subterranean amphipod Crangonyx chlebnikovi Borutzky, 1928 (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae), with lectotype designation and comments on morphology of the lateral cephalic lobe. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 21(2): 149-160., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.21.2.04
page(s): 158; note: notes on diagnostics [details] Available for editors
additional source Takhteev V.V., Berezina N.A., Sidorov D.A. (2015). Checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) from continental waters of Russia, with data on alien species. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 24(3): 335–370., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.24.3.09
page(s): 341, 349; note: in list of genera [details] Available for editors
additional 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: in a key [details] Available for editors
additional source Sidorov, D. A.; Palatov, D. (2012). Taxonomy of the spring dwelling amphipod Synurella ambulans (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae) in West Russia: with notes on its distribution and ecology. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 23: 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55608377
page(s): 15; note: note on affinities [details] Available for editors
additional source Kornobis, E., Pálsson, S. & Svavarsson, J. (2012). Classification of Crangonyx islandicus (Amphipoda, Crangonyctidae) based on morphological characters and comparison with molecular phylogenies. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3233: 52-66., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3233.1.4
note: morphological phylogeny [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 Nakano, T., Tomikawa, K., Grygier, M.J. (2018). Rediscovered syntypes of Procrangonyx japonicus, with nomenclatural consideration of some crangonyctoidean subterranean amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Allocrangonyctidae, Niphargidae, Pseudocrangonyctidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4532 (1): 86–94., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4532.1.4 [details] Available for editors
additional source Cannizzaro, A. G.; Balding, D.; Lazo-Wasem, E. A.; Sawicki, T. R. (2019). Morphological and molecular analyses reveal a new species of stygobitic amphipod in the genus Crangonyx (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae) from Jackson County, Florida, with a redescription of Crangonyx floridanus and notes on its taxonomy and biogeography. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 53(7-8): 425-473., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1584341
page(s): 430 [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, 196, Fig. 4, 201, 202, 203; note: phylogeny [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): 1160-1161, fig. 17, 1184; note: molecular phylogeny; affinity [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, 49, 59, fig. 1; note: molecular phylogeny; morphological affinity [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): 447, 460; note: affinity [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): 2, 4, 5, 12-14; fig. 1; note: molecular phylogeny; biogeography [details] Available for editors
additional 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
status source Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. <em>Cornell University Press, Ithaca.</em> 312 pp. [details] Available for editors
identification resource 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. [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Schellenberg, A. (1936). Die Amphipodengattungen um Crangonyx, ihre Verbreitung und ihre Arten. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 22:31-43.
page(s): 31-35; note: systematics; key; affinities [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum Natural History: London.</em> i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.20901
page(s): 178 [details]
taxonomy source 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
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: diagnosis update [details] Available for editors
additional source Sidorov, D. A.;Pankov, N. N.;Holsinger, J. R.;. (2012). Distribution and ecology of the subterranean amphipod Crangonyx chlebnikovi Borutzky, 1928 (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae), with lectotype designation and comments on morphology of the lateral cephalic lobe. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 21(2): 149-160., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.21.2.04
page(s): 158; note: notes on diagnostics [details] Available for editors
additional source Takhteev V.V., Berezina N.A., Sidorov D.A. (2015). Checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) from continental waters of Russia, with data on alien species. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 24(3): 335–370., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.24.3.09
page(s): 341, 349; note: in list of genera [details] Available for editors
additional 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: in a key [details] Available for editors
additional source Sidorov, D. A.; Palatov, D. (2012). Taxonomy of the spring dwelling amphipod Synurella ambulans (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae) in West Russia: with notes on its distribution and ecology. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 23: 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55608377
page(s): 15; note: note on affinities [details] Available for editors
additional source Kornobis, E., Pálsson, S. & Svavarsson, J. (2012). Classification of Crangonyx islandicus (Amphipoda, Crangonyctidae) based on morphological characters and comparison with molecular phylogenies. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3233: 52-66., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3233.1.4
note: morphological phylogeny [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 Nakano, T., Tomikawa, K., Grygier, M.J. (2018). Rediscovered syntypes of Procrangonyx japonicus, with nomenclatural consideration of some crangonyctoidean subterranean amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Allocrangonyctidae, Niphargidae, Pseudocrangonyctidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4532 (1): 86–94., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4532.1.4 [details] Available for editors
additional source Cannizzaro, A. G.; Balding, D.; Lazo-Wasem, E. A.; Sawicki, T. R. (2019). Morphological and molecular analyses reveal a new species of stygobitic amphipod in the genus Crangonyx (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae) from Jackson County, Florida, with a redescription of Crangonyx floridanus and notes on its taxonomy and biogeography. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 53(7-8): 425-473., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1584341
page(s): 430 [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, 196, Fig. 4, 201, 202, 203; note: phylogeny [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): 1160-1161, fig. 17, 1184; note: molecular phylogeny; affinity [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, 49, 59, fig. 1; note: molecular phylogeny; morphological affinity [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): 447, 460; note: affinity [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): 2, 4, 5, 12-14; fig. 1; note: molecular phylogeny; biogeography [details] Available for editors
additional 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
status source Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. <em>Cornell University Press, Ithaca.</em> 312 pp. [details] Available for editors
identification resource 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. [details] Available for editors
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