İpek, Mehmet;Özbek, Murat
Gammaridae
Sign in to saveGammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.
Species
gammaridés
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderAmphipoda
- FamilyGammaridae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded329,635
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 457
- With media
- 67
- Family
- Gammaridae
- Collections
- CINVESTAV-IPN, AMNH, YPM, USNM, CAS, UAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Canada, Argentina, United States, Australia, Antarctica
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Gammaroidea
- Image
- Gammarus roeselii.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gammaridae
- taxon name
- Gammaridae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Gammaridae
- taxon common name
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Systematics
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Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.
They have a wide distribution, centered on Eurasia, and are euryhaline as a lineage, inhabiting fresh to marine waters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gammaridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.