Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Protohyale (Protohyale) guasave
amphipodo, Amphipods
Affin. Gulf of California
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Amphipoda
Suborder
Senticaudata
Superfamily
Hyaloidea
Family
Hyalidae
Genus
Protohyale (Protohyale)
Species
guasave
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hyale guasave J.L. Barnard, 1979 (Horton et al., 2021).
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.
- 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, Protohyale (Protohyale) guasave", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14795. Accessed 1 November 2026.