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Argissidae is a family of
amphipod Amphipoda () is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 10,700 amphipod species cur ...
s belonging to the order
Amphipoda Amphipoda () is an order (biology), order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 10,700 amphip ...
. Genera: * ''
Argissa Argura (), called Argissa (Ἄργισσα) in Homer's ''Iliad'', was a town and polis (city-state) in Pelasgiotis in ancient Thessaly, on the Peneus, and near Larissa. The name of the town was also given as Argusa (Ἆργουσσα) in some anc ...
'' Boeck, 1871 * ''
Chimaeropsis ''Chimaeropsis'' is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish related to modern chimaeras, known from the Jurassic of Europe. Taxonomy The genus and species ''Chimaeropsis paradoxa'' was originally erected in 1887 by Zittel, based on a "'fairly w ...
'' Meinert, 1890


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