''Pallasea'' is a genus 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 ...
crustacean
Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...
s in the family
Pallaseidae
Pallaseidae (from the genus name '' Pallasea'') is a family of amphipod crustaceans endemic to Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia between the Federal subjects ...
.
[ Horton, T. et al. (2025). World Amphipoda Database]
''Pallasea'' Spence Bate, 1863
Accessed on 2025-05-02
Currently the species in the genus only comprise three taxa from
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia between the Federal subjects of Russia, federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast, Irkutsk Oblasts of Russia, Oblast to the northwest and the Repu ...
and the
Angara
The Angara (; ) or Angar ( мүрэн) is a major river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. It drains out of Lake Baikal and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisey. It is long, and has ...
river downstream.
* ''
Pallasea angarensis''
Dorogostaisky, 1917
* ''
Pallasea cancellus''
(Pallas, 1772)
* ''
Pallasea gerstfeldtii''
(Dybowsky, 1874)
The concept of the genus was previously wider, comprising also species in the current genera ''
Homalogammarus'', ''
Pentagonurus'', ''
Babr
''Babr'' is a genus of amphipod crustaceans in the family Pallaseidae, endemic to Lake Baikal. There are 2 species in the genus.
Taxonomic history
Previously the species of this genus were a part of another Lake Baikal, Baikalian genus ''Palla ...
'' and ''
Pallaseopsis''.
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Gammaroidea
Amphipod genera