Gammaridae

Gammaridae
Gammarus roeselii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Superfamily: Gammaroidea
Family: Gammaridae
Leach, 1813
Genera

Numerous, see text

Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds",[1] 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.

  1. ^ "Scuds". West Fly. 2006. Archived from the original on May 25, 2006. Retrieved August 7, 2006.