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Ochlesidae
Sign in to saveOchlesidae is a family of amphipods. They are very small, often less than long, and are found mainly in tropical and subtropical areas of the Southern Hemisphere. The family Odiidae has sometimes been subsumed into Ochlesidae.
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It is catalogued under topics including Amphilochidea, Amphipod families and Taxa named by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderAmphipoda
- FamilyOchlesidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 68
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Ochlesidae
- Collections
- NMV, AM
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Image
- Curidia japonica (10.12782-specdiv.29.199) Figure 6.png
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- Category:Ochlesidae
- Commons category
- Ochlesidae
- taxon common name
- Ōgi-yokoebi-ka
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Ochlesidae is a family of amphipods. They are very small, often less than long, and are found mainly in tropical and subtropical areas of the Southern Hemisphere. The family Odiidae has sometimes been subsumed into Ochlesidae.
Four genera are included in the family: Curidia Thomas, 1983 Meraldia Barnard & Karaman, 1987 Ochlesis Stebbing, 1910 Ochlesodius Ledoyer, 1982
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ochlesidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.