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Order AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816


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James K. Lowry

Introduction

As insects dominate the earth's terrestrial environment, the amphipods are their aquatic equivalent. They are abundant and diverse in nearly all of the world's marine habitats and many of its freshwater habitats including its ancient artesian basins.

The world amphipods have been monographed several times. Stebbing (1906) monographed the world species for the first and last time. J.L. Barnard (1969) monographed the families and genera of marine amphipods and Barnard & Barnard (1983) monographed the world families and genera of freshwater amphipods and provided species lists. Barnard & Karaman (1991) monographed the marine families and genera with lists of all species. At that time there were about 1060 genera and about 5700 known species of gammaridean amphipods.

Amphipods differ from other peracaridan groups as follows. The legs (known as pereopods) are modified into three groups. The first two pairs are known as gnathopods and are generally used for grasping. The next two pairs, pereopods 3 and 4, face posteriorly and the last three pairs, pereopods 5 to 7, are usually stouter than pereopods 3 and 4 and are directed anteriorly. There are only three pairs of pleopods. The fourth and fifth pairs are modified to form uropods so that amphipods have three pair of uropods.

Amphipods are traditionally divided into four groups: the gammarideans, which are almost certainly paraphyletic. The caprellideans, also paraphyletic, are distinguished by their elongate cylindrical bodies and general lack of an abdomen, the hyperiideans, entirely pelagic marine animals which have all lost the palp on their maxillipeds and ingolfiellideans, a small, obscure group, highly modified for an interstitial life-style. These groups have never been tested in a modern phylogenetic sense. Martin & Davis (2001) discuss this problem.

Synopsis of Australian Amphipod Taxonomy
Australian amphipod taxonomy started with W.A. Haswell, the first Professor of Zoology at Sydney University. He was a general carcinologist, who during his career described 76 species of amphipods, mainly from Port Jackson N.S.W. This early work of Haswell (1879a, 1879b, 1880a, 1880b, 1882, 1885a, 1885b) set the stage for Australian amphipod systematics. Although many of Haswell's names remain in use, most of his species were poorly described. The status of his types has always caused confusion (Springthorpe & Lowry 1994), but early collections of many of his species are held in the Australian Museum and have been frequently used for redescriptions.

Although T.R.R. Stebbing never visited Australia he made a significant contribution to the systematics of Australian amphipods. Stebbing (1888) described 24 Australian species from the Challenger Expedition. Later Stebbing (1910) studied the amphipod collections from the Thetis Expedition off the coast of Sydney. In this work he described an additional 13 new species and made the second checklist of the known amphipod fauna of Australia (about 182 species). Between 1888 and 1914 Stebbing described 47 species of Australian amphipods.

The next important monographer of Australian amphipods was Keith Sheard, who worked as an honorary assistant at the South Australian Museum from 1936–1939. He studied mainly on phliantid, dexaminid and melitid amphipods and added 16 species to the Australian fauna. Sheard produced the third checklist of the Australian amphipod fauna known at that time. By this time the fauna had grown to 190 species.

After Sheard little progress was made on Australian amphipods until the late 1960's when J.L. Barnard (Smithsonian Institution) came to Perth (Lowry 1993) to study for a year. He produced several major monographs which solved many existing problems in Australian marine amphipod taxonomy and described much of what is known of the shallow water south-western amphipod fauna (1972, 1974) before collaborating with the M.M. Drummond (Victorian State Fisheries and Museum Victoria) to produce their remarkable monographs on Australian phoxocephaloid (1978, 1979, 1982c, 1991), oedicerotoid (1982a, 1983, 1984a, 1984b, 1992) and other (1981, 1982b, 1987a, 1987b) amphipods. Some of his later works on Australian amphipods (Barnard & Thomas 1991 and Thomas & Barnard 1990, 1991a, 1991b) were co-authored with J.D. Thomas (Nova Southeastern University). Barnard also worked with W.D. Williams (University of Adelaide) on Australian freshwater amphipods (Williams & Barnard, 1988 and Barnard & Williams, 1995). This work has been developed further by Williams and Bradbury (1995, 1996a, 1996b, 1997, 1999). Since his death in 1992 several additional papers (Barnard 1999 and Lowry & Barnard 2000) on Australian amphipods have appeared. Between 1961 and 1999 Barnard and his co-authors described nearly 230 species of Australian marine amphipods. This body of work has dominated Australian amphipod taxonomy and made possible the modern study of the Australian fauna.

A.M.M. Richardson (University of Tasmania) has worked on the systematics of Australian talitrid amphipods (beach hoppers) for years (Richardson & Devitt 1984; Richardson, Swain & Smith 1991; Richardson 1993). A. Friend (1979, 1987) described the terrestrial talitrid amphipods of Tasmania. Friend worked as the first visiting fellow at the Australian Museum where his studies on mainland Australian terrestrial amphipods began (Friend 1982). He is in the process of finishing a major monograph on the mainland terrestrial amphipod fauna.

J.K. Lowry came to the Australian Museum in 1976 and H.E. Stoddart arrived soon after. After initial studies on Australian and New Zealand subantarctic amphipods (Lowry & Fenwick 1983; Lowry & Stoddart 1983), Lowry and Stoddart (1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995) began their studies of the lysianassoid amphipods of Australia and the Australasian region. There are about 200 species in their collections, which are in the process of being described and published.

J.K. Lowry and G.C.B. Poore (Museum of Victoria) monographed the ampeliscid amphipods of south-eastern Australia and described the first ingolfiellid amphipods from Australia (Lowry & Poore 1985, 1989).

P.B. Berents worked on the melitid amphipods of the Great Barrier Reef (Berents 1983) as a master's student at the University of Sydney. As part of her PhD project Berents described a new genus and species of urohaustoriid (1985) from Jervis Bay, N.S.W. In 1988 Berents became the collection manager (Australian Museum) responsible for crustacean collections and co-ordinated the databasing of the crustaceans collections. Lowry and Berents (Lowry, 1981a; Lowry & Berents 1996; Lowry & Berents in press) have an ongoing research project on Australasian cerapid amphipods.

A.A. Myers (National University of Ireland) worked as a visiting fellow at the Australian Museum in 1986 and produced a number of important papers on Australian aorid amphipods (Myers 1975, 1981, 1985, 1988; Myers & Moore 1983).

P.G. Moore (University Marine Biological Station Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland) studied collections made by G. Edgar (Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos) in Tasmania and produced a series of papers (1981, 1982, 1986, 1987a, 1987b, 1988a, 1988b, 1989, 1992; Myers & Moore, 1988) which have described nearly 30 species, mainly from Tasmania.

W. Vader came as a visiting fellow to the Australian Museum in 1993 to work on the SEAS Project (Scavengers of Eastern Australian Seas). During that time he discovered a diverse group of undescribed amphipods associated with hermit crabs. Vader (1995) and Vader & Myers (1996) are producing a series of papers on these amphipods.

Freewater & Lowry (1994) and Poore & Lowry (1997), more recently, described a number of new ampithoid amphipods from Port Jackson.

J. Just came to Australia in 1983 as an exchange curator between the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen and the Australian Museum. During this time he began studies on Australian amphipods. He soon returned permanently to Australia where he worked at the Museum of Victoria and as the Director of Faunal Studies at the Australian Biological Resources Survey. Just (1983, 1985, 1990, 1998, 2001) has produced a series of excellent papers on the siphonoecetine and iphimedioid amphipods.

Wolfgang Zeidler began working on hyperiidean amphipods in late 1970s, a group of pelagic amphipods with wide distributions. Between 1978 and 1999 Zeidler has recorded about 120 hyperiidean species in Australian waters (1978, 1984, 1992a, 1992b, 1999). According the Zeidler (pers. comm.) if the deepwater hyperiidean fauna of Australia were known, then most of the world's species would be recorded from Australian waters.

The caprellidean fauna is currently being studied by J.M. Guerra-Garcia (University of Seville, Spain) and I. Takeuchi (Eihme University, Japan) who are describing about 25 new species. Lowry & Springthorpe are revising the Australian melitid amphipods. The Australian ampithoid amphipods are currently being studied by R. Peart (Australian Museum), who is describing about 60 new species from Australian waters. Coleman (Natural History Museum, Berlin) is describing about 20 species of iphimedioid amphipods from Australian waters.

The Australian Amphipod Project, started in 2000 by Jim Lowry, is a web-based study which provides monographs and interactive keys to all Australian marine species. It is available on the web at www.crustacea.net/crustace/amphipoda/aus_intro. To date we have developed monographs and keys to the Australian Ampeliscidae, Aoridae, Eusiridae, Hyalidae, Leucothoidae and Melitidae (Lowry & Springthorpe 2000; Lowry, Berents & Springthorpe 2000a, 2000b, 2000c, 2000d, 2001), 99 families and about 180 species.

A new suborder, Senticaudata, established by Lowry and Myers (2013) rearranged many of the amphipod groups.

Lowry & Myers (2017) propose a revised classification for the order Amphipoda, with six suborders: Pseudingolfiellidea, Hyperiidea, Colomastigidea, Hyperiopsidea, Senticaudata and Amphilochidea. Ingolfiellidea is raised to order status.

 

Diagnosis

Carapace absent; thoracomere 1 fused to head (bearing maxillipeds). Eyes sessile. Antenna 1 typically biramous (inner ramus reduced). Maxillipeds with basal and ischial endites. Thoracopods 2–8 (pereopods 1–7) uniramous, coxae forming plates. Pereopods modifications. Pleopods 4–6 modified as uropods. Young released from brood pouch at fully-formed adults. Male with paired penes on sternum of pereonite 7; female gonopores on pereonite 5.

 

General References

Barnard, J.L. 1961. Gammaridean Amphipoda from depths of 400 to 6000 metres. Galathea Report 5: 23-128

Barnard, J.L. 1969. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 271: 1-535

Barnard, J.L. 1972. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part I. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 103: i-vi 1-333

Barnard, J.L. 1974. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part II. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 139: i-v 1-148

Barnard, J.L. 1999. Revision of Laphystiopsidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda): new and old species from South China Sea, southeastern Australia, Falkland Islands and western Atlantic Ocean. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 57(2): 287-310

Barnard, J.L. & Barnard, C.M. 1983. Freshwater Amphipoda of the World. I. Evolutionary Patterns. II. Handbook and Bibliography. Virginia : Hayfield Associates 830 pp.

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1976. Clarification of five genera of Phoxocephalidae (marine Amphipoda). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 88(49): 515-548

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1978. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part III: The Phoxocephalidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 245: 1-551

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1979. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part IV. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 269: i-iii, 1-69

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1981. Three corophioids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Western Port, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 93: 31-41

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1982. Discovery of Cheirocratus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) on Australian shores. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 94(3): 107-120

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1982. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part V: Superfamily Haustorioidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 360: i-iv, 1-148

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1982. Redescription of Exoediceros fossor (Stimpson, 1856) an Australian marine fossorial amphipod, the type-genus of the new family Exoedicerotidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(3): 610-620

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1983. Warreyus, a new genus of Exoedicerotidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) based on Exoediceros maculosus Sheard. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 95(2): 65-75

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1984. A new paracalliopiid, Katocalliope kutyeri gen. et sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 96(3): 147-153

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1984. Redescription of Notoediceros tasmaniensis Bousfield and a note on the synonymy of Warreyus Barnard & Drummond with Exoediceroides Bousfield (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Exoedicerotidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 96(1): 25-32

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1987. A new marine genus, Doowia, from eastern Australia (Amphipoda, Gammaridea). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 99(3): 117-126

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1987. Rectification of Amphoediceros willisi Fearn-Wannan (1968) genus and species removed to Paramoera Miers (1875). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 99(1): 13-18

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1991. Nepelle nefera, a new genus and species of marine amphipod from Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Urohaustoriidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 52(2): 277-282

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1992. Paracalliope, a genus of Australian shorelines (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Paracalliopiidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 53(1): 1-29

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Bousfield, E.L. 1976. A new terrestrial amphipod from Lord Howe Island. Records of the Australian Museum 30(6): 118-122

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Bradbury, J.H. & Williams, W.D. 1995. A new genus and species of crangonyctoid amphipod (Crustacea) from Western Australian fresh waters. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 119(2): 67-74

Bradbury, J.H. & Williams, W.D. 1996. Freshwater amphipods from Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 48: 33-74

Bradbury, J.H. & Williams, W.D. 1996. Two new species of anchialine amphipods (Crustacea, Hadziidae, Liagoceradocus) from Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 17(4): 395-409

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Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 1989. The scopelocheirid genus Aroui (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) with notes on the association between scopelocheirid amphipods, cassid gastropods and spatangoid echinoids. Records of the Australian Museum 41: 111-120

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 1990. The Wandinidae, a new Indo-Pacific family of lysianassoid Amphipoda (Crustacea). Records of the Australian Museum 42(2): 159-171

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 1992. A revision of the genus Ichnopus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae). Records of the Australian Museum 44(2): 185-245

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 1995. New lysianassoid genera and species from south-eastern Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Records of the Australian Museum 47: 7-25

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 1998. A new genus of Eusiridae (Crustacea, Amphipoda), associated with the abalone Haliotis rubra Leach, in south-eastern Australia. Zoosystematica Rossica 20(2): 306-314

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2002. The Amaryllididae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea). Records of the Australian Museum 54: 129-214

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2002. The lysianassoid amphipod genera Lepidepecreoides and Lepidepecreum in southern waters (Crustacea, Lysianassidae, Tryphosinae). Records of the Australian Museum 54: 335-364

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Moore, P.G. 1982. A new species of the aberrant genus Yulumara (Amphipoda, Colomastigidae) from Tasmania. Crustaceana 43(1): 60-64

Moore, P.G. 1986. A new species in the genus Grandidierella Coutière (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from an Australian solar salt-works. Journal of Natural History 20: 1393-1399

Moore, P.G. 1987. New Aoridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Tasmanian kelp holdfasts. Journal of Natural History 21: 775-784

Moore, P.G. 1987. Taxonomic studies on Tasmanian phytal amphipods (Crustacea): the families Anamixidae, Leucothoidae and Sebidae. Journal of Natural History 21: 239-262

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Moore, P.G. 1988. Taxonomic observations on the genera Xenocheira Haswell and Ericthonius Milne Edwards (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Australian coastal waters. Journal of Natural History 22: 705-732

Moore, P.G. 1989. Three new amphipod species related to Hippomedon (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) from Tasmanian inshore waters. Journal of Natural History 23: 1443-1460

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History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
03-Sep-2018 AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816 31-May-2018 MODIFIED Dr Shane Ahyong
09-Oct-2013 AMPHIPODA 29-Apr-2013 MODIFIED Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022 06-Feb-2013 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)