Family AETIOPEDESIDAE Myers & Lowry, 2003

Aetiopedes gracilis

© Copyright from Moore & Myers, 1988: fig. 1

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Introduction

The family Aetiopedesidae was established by Myers & Lowry (2003) based on a phylogenetic analysis of corophiidean amphipods. The monotypic family, currently known only from Tasmania, is based on one species and appears to be most closely related to the monotypic Antarctic family Paragammaropsidae Myers & Lowry, 2003, both of which have silk glands in the merus of pereopods 3–4. Aetiopedesids are unusual among corophiidean amphipods in exhibiting no sexual dimorphism. Nothing is known about the feeding strategies of aetiopedesids.

General References

Moore, P.G. & Myers, A.A. 1988. An enigma from Australia: a new variation on the corophioid theme (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Journal of Natural History 22: 1665-1675

Myers, A.A. & Lowry, J.K. 2003. A phylogeny and a new classification of the Corophiidea Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology 23(2): 443-485

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