Stilipedidae Holmes 1908
- Dataset
- Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea)
- Rank
- FAMILY
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Stilipedidae
discussion
Remarks Holman & Watling (1983) proposed a classification scheme where the Stilipedidae consisted of an assemblage of three well distinct homogeneous subfamilies: Alexandrellinae Holman & Watling, 1983, Astyrinae Pirlot, 1934 and Stilipedinae Holmes, 1908. The monophyly of this assemblage was questioned by Andres & Lott (1986) and was not supported by a recent phylogenetic analysis including two of these subfamilies: the Alexandrellinae and the Astyrinae (Verheye et al. 2016 b, 2017). The classification of Holman & Watling (1983) is retained herein for convenience only. In the past, members of the family Stilipedidae have been attributed to a wide range of families. For example Schellenberg (1931) included Alexandrella schellenbergi (as Iphimediopsis australis) in the Acanthonotozomatidae; K. H. Barnard (1932) put Eclysis similis in the Paramphithoidae, and Nicholls (1938) put Alexandrella mixta (as Parandaniexis mixtus) in the Stegocephalidae.
Name
- Homonyms
- Stilipedidae Holmes 1908
- Stilipedidae