Suborder HYPERIIDEA

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Introduction

Hyperiideans are zooplanktonic amphipods found throughout the world's oceans. Based on the works of Laval (1980), all hyperiideans are considered to be parasitic at some stage of their life histories. About 120 species are currently known from Australian waters. This is about half of the world fauna. According to Zeidler (pers. comm.) most of the world species will be recorded here when the deep-water hyperiidean fauna of Australia is finally collected and studied. The majority of Australian hyperiidean species have been recorded by Zeidler in a series of papers published between 1978 and 1999. The higher level classification of hyperiideans was stablised by Bowman & Gruner (1973). Recently Vinogradov et al. (1982) produced a world monograph to all species. No published phylogenetic studies have tested the current ideas about relationships in this group.

The hyperiidean diagnostic descriptions are based on diagnoses generated from a DELTA (Dallwitz et al. 1993, 1998) database of Australian amphipod families. Each diagnosis contains the complete set of diagnostic characters for all hyperiidean families. Character states in bold text refer to the unique combination of characters which will define each family against all others. Unless indicated otherwise, the following attributes are implicit throughout these descriptions, except where the characters concerned are inapplicable.

 

Diagnosis

Head rostrum present; eyes not occupying most of lateral surface of head. Antenna 1 peduncle 3-articulate. Mouthparts well developed. Mandible molar present; palp present. Maxilla 1 present; inner plate present; palp present. Maxilla 2 present; inner plate present. Pereonites pleurae absent. Coxae 1–7 well developed, none fused with pereonites. Gnathopod 1 dactylus large. Gnathopod 2 dactylus well developed. Pereopods none prehensile; 3–7 without hooded dactyli. Pereopod 7 with 7 articles. Pleonites 1–3 without dorsal carina. Urosomite 3 not fused with telson. Uropod 1 biramous. Uropod 2 well developed. Uropod 3 peduncle with medial process.

 

General References

Bowman, T.E. & Gruner, H.E. 1973. The families and genera of Hyperiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 146: 1-64

Dallwitz, M.J., Paine, T.A. & Zurcher, E.J. 1993. (onwards). User's Guide to the DELTA System: a General System for Processing Taxonomic Descriptions. 4th edition. http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/.

Dallwitz, M.J., Paine, T.A. & Zurcher, E.J. 1998. Interactive keys. pp. 201-212 in Bridge, P., Jeffries, P., Morse, D.R. & Scott, P.R. (eds). Information Technology, Plant Pathology and Biodiversity. Wallingford : CAB International.

Laval, P. 1980. Hyperiid amphipods as crustacean parasitoids associated with gelatinous zooplankton. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Reviews 18: 11-56

Vinogradov, M.E., Volkov, A.F. & Semenova, T.N. 1982. Amphipoda — Hyperiidea of the World Ocean. Nauka Leningrad U.S.S.R. Opred. po Faune S.S.S.R 132: 1-491 [in Russian]

Vinogradov, M.E., Volkov, A.F. & Semenova, T.N. 1996. Hyperiid amphipods (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) of the world oceans. Washington D.C., U.S.A. : Smithsonian Institution Libraries 632 pp. [translated version from the Russian of Vinogradov 1982]

Zeidler, W. 1978. Hyperiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Queensland waters. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 59: 1-93

Zeidler, W. 1984. Distribution and abundance of some Hyperiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in northern Queensland waters. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35: 285-305

Zeidler, W. 1990. Pelagic amphipods, Infraorder Physosomata (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) from the CSK International Zooplankton collection (western North Pacific), with the description of four new species of Scina. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 34(4/6): 167-200

Zeidler, W. 1992a. A new species of pelagic amphipod of the genus Lestrigonus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) from eastern Australia. Journal of Plankton Research 14(10): 1383-1396

Zeidler, W. 1992b. Hyperiid amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) collected recently from eastern Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 44(1): 85-133

Zeidler, W. 1998. Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) collected from eastern and south-eastern Australian waters by the CSIRO vessel "Warreen" during the years 1938–1941. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 4: 1-143

Zeidler, W. 1999. Review of the hyperiidean amphipod genus Oxycephalus Milne-Edwards (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Oxycephalidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 391-424

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	29-Apr-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)