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Iphigenellidae is a freshwater family of
amphipods
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 ...
in the superfamily
Gammaroidea
Gammaroidea is a superfamily of crustaceans in the order Amphipoda.
Families
These families belong to the superfamily Gammaroidea:
* Acanthogammaridae Garjajeff, 1901
* Anisogammaridae Bousfield, 1977
* Baikalogammaridae Kamaltynov, 2002
* Ba ...
.
It is found in the
Ponto-Caspian region, which encompasses the
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,
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is a town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River just from the Sea of Azov, which derives its name from the town. The population is
History
Early settlements in the vici ...
, and
Caspian Caspian can refer to:
*The Caspian Sea
*The Caspian Depression, surrounding the northern part of the Caspian Sea
*The Caspians, the ancient people living near the Caspian Sea
*The Caspian languages spoken in northern Iran and southeastern Azerbaij ...
Seas.
Taxonomy
The family has only one recognised species.
* ''
Iphigenella''
Sars
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, 1896
** ''
Iphigenella acanthopoda''
Sars
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, 1896
Two species – ''I. andrussowi'' and ''I. shablensis''
– were, respectively, described by
Sars
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and Carausu in 1894 and 1943, but these species are no longer recognized.
References
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Gammaroidea
Crustaceans described in 2001
Freshwater crustaceans
Amphipod families
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