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Echinogammarus
Sign in to saveEchinogammarus is a genus of amphipod crustaceans in the family Gammaridae. The status of many of its species is incertae sedis, but its type species is Echinogammarus berilloni. Species in Echinogammarus are parasitized by the Filozoan species Txikispora philomaios.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderAmphipoda
- FamilyGammaridae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 81
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Gammaridae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM, VIMS, GNM, CMN
- Recorded in
- Spain, United States, Belgium, Tunisia, Sweden
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Gammaridae
- Image
- Marinogammarus obtusatus (YPM IZ 068993) 002.jpeg
Show 4 more facts
- taxon name
- Echinogammarus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Stebbing, 1899
- Commons category
- Echinogammarus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Echinogammarus is a genus of amphipod crustaceans in the family Gammaridae. The status of many of its species is incertae sedis, but its type species is Echinogammarus berilloni. Species in Echinogammarus are parasitized by the Filozoan species Txikispora philomaios.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Echinogammarus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.