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Alexandrellinae Holman & Watling 1983

  • 1. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Service Heritage, Rue Vautier 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & Corresponding author: cdudekem @ naturalsciences. be
  • 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational direction Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Rue Vautier 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & Email: mverheye @ naturalsciences. be

Description

Subfamily Alexandrellinae Holman & Watling, 1983

Alexandrellinae Holman & Watling, 1983: 28.

Tironidae – Chevreux 1911: 1167 (in part).

Acanthonotozomatidae – Schellenberg 1931: 116 (in part).

Stegocephalidae – Nicholls 1938: 40 (in part)

Astyridae – Birstein & Vinogradova 1960: 152 (in part).

Stilipedidae – J.L. Barnard 1969: 451 (in part).

Alexandrellinae – Andres & Lott 1986: 134 (discussion).

non Stegocephalinae Dana, 1852: 310.

non Acanthonotozomatidae Stebbing, 1906: 210.

non Tironidae Stebbing, 1906: 273

non Stilipedidae Holmes, 1908: 535.

non Astyridae Pirlot, 1934: 175.

Remarks

According to the phylogenetic analyses of Verheye et al. (2016b, 2017), the Alexandrellinae are extremely close to the Epimeriidae, and might even be nested within Epimeria.

Notes

Published as part of d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem & Verheye, Marie L., 2017, Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea), pp. 1-553 in European Journal of Taxonomy 359 on page 166, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.359, http://zenodo.org/record/3855694

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Holman & Watling
Taxon rank
subFamily
Taxonomic concept label
Alexandrellinae Holman, 1983 sec. d'Acoz & Verheye, 2017

References

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  • Chevreux E. 1911. Sur les amphipodes des Expeditions Antarctiques Francaises. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 153: 1166 - 1168. http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 7184704 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].
  • Schellenberg A. 1931. Gammariden und Caprelliden des Magellangebietes, Sudgeorgiens und der Westantarktis. Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1903 2 (6): 1 - 290, pl. 1.
  • Nicholls G. E. 1938. Amphipoda Gammaridea. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911 - 1914, Scientific Reports, Series C 2: 1 - 145 (+ Corrigendum).
  • Birstein Y. A. & Vinogradova N. G. 1960. Pelagicheskie gammaridy tropischeskoi chasti Ticogo Okeana [Bottom ultra-abyssal Gammaridea of the north-western part of the Pacific ocean. I. Families Liljeborgiidae, Astyridae, Lepechinellidae, Gammaridae]. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii Akademija Nauk SSSR 34: 147 - 164. [in Russian]
  • Barnard J. L. 1969. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda. United States National Museum Bulletin 271: i-vi, 1 - 535. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 32379802 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].
  • Andres H. G. & Lott N. 1986. Where to place Eclysis similis K. H. Barnard, 1932? Hints at its relationships and remarks on the systematic position of the Astyridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Mitteilungen aus den Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 83: 131 - 137.
  • Dana J. D. 1852. On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. The American Journal of Science and Arts ser. 2 14 (41): 297 - 316. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 28136775 [accessed 11 Oct. 2016].
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  • Holmes S. J. 1908. The Amphipoda collected by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer " Albatross " off the west coast of North America, in 1903 and 1904, with the descriptions of a new family and several new genera and species. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 35: 489 - 543. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.35 - 1654.489
  • Pirlot J. M. 1934. Les amphipodes de l'expedition du Siboga. Deuxieme partie. Les amphipodes gammarides II. - Les amphipodes de la mer profonde. 2. Hyperopsidae, Pardaliscidae, Astyridae nov. fam., Tironidae, Calliopiidae, Paramphithoidae, Amathillopsidae nov. fam., Eusiridae, Gammaridae, Aoridae, Photidae, Ampithoidae, Jassidae. Siboga-Expeditie, Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Botanisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch Gebied 33 (d): i-vii, 167 - 235.
  • Verheye M., Martin P., Backeljau T. & d'Udekem d'Acoz C. 2016 b. DNA sequence data suggests abundant homoplasy in taxonomically important morphological characters of Eusiroidea (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Zoologica Scripta 45 (3): 300 - 321, supplements S 1 - S 3. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zsc. 12153
  • Verheye M., Backeljau T. & d'Udekem d'Acoz C. 2017. Locked in the Icehouse: evolution of an endemic Epimeria (Amphipoda, Crustacea) species flock on the Antarctic shelf. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114: 14 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2017.05.013