Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Photis elephantis
amphipodo, Amphipods
Affin. California
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Amphipoda
Suborder
Corophiidea
Family
Photidae
Genus
Photis
Species
elephantis
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
- 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 Galápagos International Scientific Project, January - March 1964, unpublished report: 1-11.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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Photis elephantis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14791. Accessed 16 July 2025.