Phliantidae is a family of isopod-like amphipod crustaceans chiefly from the southern hemisphere.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Parvorder: | Talitridira |
| Superfamily: | Hyaloidea |
| Family: | Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899 |
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Description
editMembers of the family Phliantidae are unusual among the order Amphipoda, because they have dorso-ventrally flattened bodies with a pronounced dorsal keel, rather than being flattened side-to-side.[1] Because of this, and various other factors, including the square-ended form of the rostrum, they resemble isopods.[2]
Distribution and ecology
editMost species are found in the Southern Hemisphere, where they live on algae in the intertidal zone.[3]
Taxonomy
editPhliantidae was originally proposed by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing in 1899 for a group that also contained the genera currently placed in the family Prophliantidae, while Temnophlias has also been moved from Phliantidae to its own monotypic families.[4] It contains the following genera:[5]
- Iphinotus Stebbing, 1899
- Palinnotus Stebbing, 1900
- Pariphinotus Kunkel, 1910
- Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1862
- Plioplateia Barnard, 1916
References
edit- ^ Charles Oliver Coleman (2009). "Phliantidae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2260: 766–770.
- ^ Sol Felty Light & James T. Carlton (2007). "Phliantidae". The Light and Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon (4th ed.). University of California Press. p. 558. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5.
- ^ James K. Lowry (2003). "Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899". Peracarida : Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. Volume 2, Part 2 of Zoological catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malacostraca. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 221–223. ISBN 978-0-643-06902-2.
- ^ Cristiana S. Serejo (2003). "Cladistic revision of talitroidean amphipods (Crustacea, Gammaridea), with a proposal of a new classification" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. 33 (6): 551–586. doi:10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00163.x. S2CID 85968161.
- ^ Claude De Broyer, Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini (2010). J. Lowry (ed.). "Phliantidae". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 9, 2010.