Platyischnopidae

Platyischnopidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Suborder: Gammaridea
Family: Platyischnopidae
Barnard & Drummond, 1979

Platyischnopidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans. Its members are characterised by the conical rostrum, which is covered with sensory pits at the end.[1] Although digging behaviour has only been directly observed in a few taxa, it is assumed that all the animals in the family Platyischnopidae are fossorial.[2] The genera included in Platyischnopidae are Skaptopus, Platyischnopus, Indischnopus, Tiburonella, Eudevenopus, Tittakunara, Tomituka and Yurrokus.[2]

References

Wikispecies has information related to: Platyischnopidae
  1. L. E. Hughes (2009). J. K. Lowry & A. A. Myers, ed. "Platyischnopidae" (PDF). Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
  2. 1 2 James Darwin Thomas & J. Laurens Barnard (1983). "The Platyischnopidae of America (Crustacea: Amphipoda)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 375: 1–33.


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