Hyperia galba

Hyperia galba

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Amphipoda
Subordo: Hyperiidea
Infraordo: Physocephalata
Superfamilia: Phronimoidea
Familia: Hyperiidae
Genus: Hyperia
Species: H. galba

Name

• Hyperia galba (Montagu, 1813)

Synonyms

• Cancer (Gammarus) galba Montagu, 1813 (superseded original combination)
• Hyperia latreillii H. Milne Edwards, 1830 (Synonym)
• Lestrigonus Kinahani Spence Bate, 1862

References

• Montagu, G. (1813). Descriptions of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the South coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(1): 1–26, plates 1–5., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756542

page(s): 4

• Wolfgang Zeidler (2004): “A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea),” Zootaxa 567: 66–. Abstract & excerpt.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Quallenflohkrebs
English: symbiotic amphipod crustacean, big-eye amphipod
Nederlands: kwalvlo, kwalgarnaal

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