Biology:Phliantidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Parvorder: | Talitridira |
| Superfamily: | Hyaloidea |
| Family: | Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899 |
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Phliantidae is a family of isopod-like amphipod crustaceans chiefly from the southern hemisphere.
Description
Members of the family Phliantidae are unusual among the order Amphipoda, because they have dorso-ventrally flattened bodies with a pronounced dorsal keel, rather than being flattened side-to-side.[1] Because of this, and various other factors, including the square-ended form of the rostrum, they resemble isopods.[2]
Distribution and ecology
Most species are found in the Southern Hemisphere, where they live on algae in the intertidal zone.[3]
Taxonomy
Phliantidae was originally proposed by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing in 1899 for a group that also contained the genera currently placed in the family Prophliantidae, while Temnophlias has also been moved from Phliantidae to its own monotypic families.[4] It contains the following genera:[5]
- Iphinotus Stebbing, 1899
- Palinnotus Stebbing, 1900
- Pariphinotus Kunkel, 1910
- Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1862
- Plioplateia Barnard, 1916
References
- ↑ Charles Oliver Coleman (2009). "Phliantidae". Zootaxa 2260: 766–770. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02260p770.pdf.
- ↑ Sol Felty Light & James T. Carlton (2007). "Phliantidae". The Light and Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon (4th ed.). University of California Press. p. 558. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=64jgZ1CfmB8C&pg=PA558.
- ↑ James K. Lowry (2003). "Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899". Peracarida : Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. Volume 2, Part 2 of Zoological catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malacostraca. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 221–223. ISBN 978-0-643-06902-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5LTA9bAHqYC&pg=PA221.
- ↑ Cristiana S. Serejo (2003). "Cladistic revision of talitroidean amphipods (Crustacea, Gammaridea), with a proposal of a new classification". Zoologica Scripta 33 (6): 551–586. doi:10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00163.x. http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/70518.pdf.
- ↑ Claude De Broyer, Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini (2010). "Phliantidae". in J. Lowry. World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101402. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
Wikidata ☰ Q3934327 entry
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