MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973

ERMS taxon details

Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973

AphiaID

430454 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:430454)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Type taxon

Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859

Parent

Crangonyctoidea Bousfield, 1973

Direct children (1)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Genus Crangonyx Spence Bate, 1859

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 312 pp.
page(s): 67; note: Original spelling: Crangonycidae. Emended by Bousfield (1977) [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430454 on 2025-11-05

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Crangonyctidae Bousfield, 1973. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php/images/js/js/images/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430454 on 2025-11-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-11-13 10:32:39Z

created

Lowry, Jim

2010-07-14 06:54:42Z

changed

Lowry, Jim

2013-02-28 20:42:32Z

changed

Horton, Tammy

2013-11-26 10:31:48Z

changed

Holsinger, John

2016-05-11 13:24:27Z

changed

Daneliya, Mikhail

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree] [list species]

[clear cache]

original description Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 312 pp.
page(s): 67; note: Original spelling: Crangonycidae. Emended by Bousfield (1977) [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Bousfield E.L. & Holsinger J.R. (1989). A new crangonyctid amphipod crustacean from hypogean fresh waters of Oregon. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 67, 963-968.
page(s): 963; note: with key to genera [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Zhang, J.; Holsinger, J. R. (2003). Systematics of the freshwater amphipod genus Crangonyx (Crangonyctidae) in North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Memoir. 6, 274 pp.
page(s): 5; note: with composition of the genus, including Palaeogammarus [details] Available for editors

additional source Kornobis, E.; Pálsson, S.; Sidorov, D. A.; Holsinger, J. R.; Kristjánsson, B. K. (2011). Molecular taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of two groundwater amphipods, Crangonyx islandicus and Crymostygius thingvallensis, endemic to Iceland. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58(3): 527-539., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.010
note: mtDNA COI, 16S, nDNA 18S, 28S [details] Available for editors

additional source Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Sidorov, D. & Gontcharov, A. (2019). Adrift across tectonic plates: Molecular phylogenetics supports the ancient Laurasian origin of old limnic crangonyctid amphipods. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 19: 191-207., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13127-019-00401-7
page(s): 192, 193, 195, 196, fig. 2, 198, Fig. 3, 199, Fig. 4, 201, 202, 203; note: Phylogeny, biogeography [details]

additional source Palatov, D. M.; Marin, I. N. (2020). A new genus of the family Crangonyctidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the Palaearctic, with descriptions of two new species from the foothills of the Altai mountains. Зоологический журнал. 99(10): 1160-1186., available online at https://doi.org/10.31857/s004451342010013x
page(s): 1160-1164, 1170, 1178, 1180, Fig. 17, 1184 [details] Available for editors

additional source Marin, I. N.; Palatov, D. M. (2021). Volgonyx gen.n. and Pontonyx gen.n., two new genera of the family Crangonyctidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the southeastern Europe. Arthropoda Selecta. 30(1): 43-61., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.1.05
page(s): 44 [details] Available for editors

additional source Palatov, D. M.; Marin, I. N. (2021). When males and females belong to different genera: an interesting case of Synurella/Pontonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) co-occurrence. Arthropoda Selecta. 30(4): 443-472., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.30.4.03
page(s): 443, fig. 1, 447, 471; note: affinities; molecular phylogeny [details] Available for editors

additional source Tomikawa, K.; Nishimoto, Y.; Nakahama, N.; Nakano, T. (2022). A New Species of the Genus Pseudocrangonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pseudocrangonyctidae) from Yonaguni Island, Southwestern Japan, and Historical Biogeographic Insights of Pseudocrangonyctids. Zoological Science. 39(5)., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs220030
page(s): 1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Englisch, U.; Coleman, C.O.; Wagele, J.W. (2003). First observations on the phylogeny of the families Gammaridae, Crangonyctidae, Melitidae, Niphargidae, Megaluropidae and Oedicerotidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea), using small subunit rDNA gene sequences. Journal of Natural History. 37(20): 2461-2486.
page(s): 2469, fig. 1; note: 18S gene phylogeny [details] Available for editors

additional source Bousfield, E. L. (1982). Amphipoda. Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New-York. 254-294.
page(s): 263 [details]

additional source Väinölä, R., Witt, J.D.S., Grabowski, M., Bradbury, J.H., Jazdzewski, K., Sket, B. (2008). Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater. In: Balian E et al.(eds) Freshwater animal diversity assessment. Hydrobiologia. 595: 241-255.
page(s): 244, table 1; 246, table 2; note: in lists [details] Available for editors

redescription Lowry, J. K.; Myers, A. A. (2013). A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Zootaxa. 3610(1): 1-80., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03610p080.pdf
page(s): 47 [details] Available for editors

redescription Holsinger J.R. (1977). A review of the systematics of the holarctic amphipod family Crangonyctidae. Crustaceana, suppl. 4, 244-281; 15 figs.;.
page(s): 245 [details] Available for editors

status source Bousfield, E. L. (1977). A new look at the systematics of Gammaroidean Amphipods of the World. Crustaceana supplement. 4: 282-316.
page(s): 300; note: Emendation of the original incorrect spelling (Crangonycidae) [details] Available for editors

status source Copilaş-Ciocianu, D.; Prokin, A.; Esin, E.; Shkil, F.; Zlenko, D.; Markevich, G.; Sidorov, D. (2024). The subarctic ancient Lake El'gygytgyn harbours the world's northernmost 'limnostygon communityʼ and reshuffles crangonyctoid systematics (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Invertebrate Systematics. 38(12)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is24001 [details] Available for editors

Definitions

[show lower level...]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Crangonyctidae)
To Genbank
To ITIS