Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Apolochus neapolitanus
Amphipodo, Amphipods
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Amphipoda
Suborder
Amphilochidea
Superfamily
Amphilochoidea
Family
Amphilochidae
Genus
Apolochus
Species
neapolitanus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Amphilochus neapolitanus Della Valle, 1893 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Barnard, J.L. (1979) Littoral Gammaridean Amphipoda from de Gulf of California and the Galápagos Islands. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 271: 1-149.
- Barnard, J.L. (1964) Marine Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands. Galápagos International Scientific Project, January - March 1964, unpublished report: 1-11.
- 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, Apolochus neapolitanus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20189. Accessed 5 November 2026.