Ampithoidae is a

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of amphipod

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...

s. The family has a worldwide distribution as algal dwellers. They commonly create tube-shaped nests on their host plants or algae which serve as both shelter and food. Young ampithoids develop from eggs to a larval stage within their mother's brood-pouch, formed by the appendages of her abdomen.

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The

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includes the following

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial ...

in this family:- *'' Amphithoides'' Kossmann, 1880 *'' Amphitholina'' Ruffo, 1953 *'' Ampithoe'' Leach, 1814 *'' Austrothoe'' Peart, 2014 *'' Biancolina'' Della Valle, 1893 *'' Cymadusa'' Savigny, 1816 *'' Exampithoe'' K.H. Barnard, 1926 *'' Macropisthopus'' K.H. Barnard, 1916 *'' Paradusa'' Ruffo, 1969 *'' Paragrubia'' Chevreux, 1901 *'' Paranexes'' Peart, 2014 *'' Pleonexes'' Spence Bate, 1857 *'' Plumithoe'' Barnard & Karaman, 1991 *'' Pseudamphithoides'' Ortiz, 1976 (e.g. ''

Pseudamphithoides incurvaria ''Pseudamphithoides incurvaria'' is a species of amphipod crustacean in the family Ampithoidae. It is native to shallow water in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean where it creates a home for itself from fragments of the algae on which it feed ...

'') *'' Pseudopleonexes'' Conlan, 1982 *'' Sunamphitoe'' Spence Bate, 1857 (e.g. ''

Sunamphitoe femorata ''Sunamphitoe femorata'' is a species of amphipod crustacean in the family Ampithoidae. It is a herbivore and constructs a tubular nest-like home on a blade of the sporophyte of the giant kelp ''Macrocystis pyrifera''. This home is made by rol ...

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