RAS taxon details
Oxycephalidae Spence Bate, 1863
196118 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196118)
accepted
Family
- Genus Oxycephalus H. Milne Edwards, 1830
- Genus Rhabdosoma White, 1847
- Genus Streetsia Stebbing, 1888
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum Natural History: London.</em> i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.20901
page(s): 341 [details]
page(s): 341 [details]
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. Oxycephalidae Spence Bate, 1863. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/rest/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196118 on 2026-08-30
RAS (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Species. Oxycephalidae Spence Bate, 1863. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196118 on 2026-08-30
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Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum Natural History: London.</em> i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.20901
page(s): 341 [details]
basis of record Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Bovallius, C. (1890). The Oxycephalides. <em>Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientarum Upsaliensis.</em> 3, 1-141., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15360801 [details]
identification resource Vinogradov M.E., Volkov A.F. & Semenova T.N. (1996). Hyperiid amphipods (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) of the world oceans. Science Publishers, Inc., Lebanon, NH, 632 pp., available online at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35848198
page(s): 498 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Zeidler, W. (2016). A review of the families and genera of the superfamily Platysceloidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), together with keys to the families, genera and species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4192(1): 1., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4192.1.1
note: key to genera [details] Available for editors
page(s): 341 [details]
basis of record Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Bovallius, C. (1890). The Oxycephalides. <em>Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientarum Upsaliensis.</em> 3, 1-141., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15360801 [details]
identification resource Vinogradov M.E., Volkov A.F. & Semenova T.N. (1996). Hyperiid amphipods (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) of the world oceans. Science Publishers, Inc., Lebanon, NH, 632 pp., available online at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35848198
page(s): 498 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Zeidler, W. (2016). A review of the families and genera of the superfamily Platysceloidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), together with keys to the families, genera and species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4192(1): 1., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4192.1.1
note: key to genera [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
