Galapagos Species Database

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Ericthonius brasiliensis (Dana, 1853)

amphipodo, Amphipods

Cosmopolitan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Malacostraca

Order
Amphipoda

Suborder
Corophiidea

Family
Ischyroceridae

Section
Ericthonini

Genus
Ericthonius

Species
brasiliensis

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Cerapus brasiliensis (Dana, 1853), Cerapus rapax (Stimpson, 1857), Ericthonius bidens Costa, 1853, Ericthonius difformis Bate, 1857, Ericthonius disjunctus Stout, 1913, Ericthonius latimanus Grube, 1864, Ericthonius minax S.I. Smith, 1873, Ericthonius rapax Stimpson, 1857, fide (Horton et al., 2021; Appeltans et al.,2010).

Origin: Native

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Barnard, J.L. (1991) Amphipoda of the Galápagos Islands. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrates. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press, New York and London, p. 193-206.
  • Barnard, J.L. (1964) Marine Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands. Galápagos International Scientific Project, January - March 1964, unpublished report: 1-11.
  • Barnard, J.L. (1979) Littoral Gammaridean Amphipoda from de Gulf of California and the Galápagos Islands. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 271: 1-149.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Ericthonius brasiliensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14770. Accessed 23 June 2025.