Family DOGIELINOTIDAE Gurjanova, 1953

Allorchestes compressa

© Copyright from Barnard, 1974, fig. 29

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• Dogielinotidae Gurjanova, E.F. 1953. Novye dopolnenija k dal'nevostochnoi faune morskik bokoplavov. Trudy-Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 13: 216–241.

  Type genus:

   Dogielinotus Gurjanova, 1953.

Introduction

Serejo (2004) in her phylogenetic analysis of the talitridan amphipods significantly changed the subfamily and generic structure of the Dogielinotidae so that an originally regional group became world-wide. Currently only one genus, Allorchestes, is represented in Australian waters, but the possibility that Exhyalella occurs in tropical Australia cannot be discounted. Dogielinotids are algal-feeders often occurring in the lower intertidal. Robertson & Lucas (1983) has shown the importance of hyalids as macroalgal herbivores in Australian waters.

The family recovered as monophyletic in the molecular phylogeny of Cannizzaro & Berg (2022).

General References

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

Cannizzaro, A., & Berg, D. 2022. Gone with Gondwana: Amphipod diversification in freshwaters followed the breakup of the supercontinent. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 171: 1-10 (phylogeny)

Robertson, A.I. & Lucas, J.S. 1983. Food choice, feeding rates and the turnover of macrophyte biomass by a surf-zone inhabiting amphipod. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 72: 99-124

Serejo, C.S. 2004. Cladistic revision of talitroidean amphipods (Crustacea, Gammaridea), with a proposal of a new classification. Zoologica Scripta 33: 551-586

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