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Gammaridae
Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.
They have a wide distribution, centered on Eurasia, and are euryhaline as a lineage, inhabiting fresh to marine waters.
22 branches of this family, most-observed first
Gammarus
genusGammarus
Dikerogammarus
genusDikerogammarus
Spined Scuds
genusEchinogammarus
Marinogammarus
genusMarinogammarus
Pectenogammarus
genusPectenogammarus
Cheirocratus
genusCheirocratus
Chaetogammarus
genusChaetogammarus
Spirogammarus
genusSpirogammarus
Yogmelina
genusYogmelina
Kuzmelina
genusKuzmelina
Shablogammarus
genusShablogammarus
Rhipidogammarus
genusRhipidogammarus
Sarothrogammarus
genusSarothrogammarus
Longigammarus
genusLongigammarus
Jugogammarus
genusJugogammarus
Amathillina
genusAmathillina
Baku
genusBaku
Albanogammarus
genusAlbanogammarus
Ilvanella
genusIlvanella
Iberogammarus
genusIberogammarus
Neogammarus
genusNeogammarus
Parhomoeogammarus
genusParhomoeogammarus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 59806.