- Source: Iphigenellidae
Iphigenellidae is a freshwater family of amphipods in the superfamily Gammaroidea. It is found in the Ponto-Caspian region, which encompasses the Black, Azov, and Caspian Seas.
Taxonomy
The family has only one recognised species.
Iphigenella Sars, 1896
Iphigenella acanthopoda Sars, 1896
Two species – I. andrussowi and I. shablensis – were, respectively, described by Sars and Carausu in 1894 and 1943, but these species are no longer recognized.
References
Further reading
Kamaltynov, R. M. (2001). "Amfipody (Amphipoda: Gammaroidea)". In Timoshkin, O. A. (ed.). Annotirovannyi spisok fauny ozera Baikal i ego vodosbornogo basseina [Index of animal species inhabiting Lake Baikal and its catchment area]. Book 1 (in Russian). Vol. I: Lake Baikal. Novosibirsk: Nauka. pp. 572–831.
External links
Data related to Iphigenellidae at Wikispecies