Liljeborgioidea

Liljeborgia georgiana, photographed by Martin Rauschert.

Belongs within: Amphipoda.

The Liljeborgioidea are a group of mainly marine and brackish-water amphipods, with some species found in freshwater hypogean habitats.

Characters (from Bousfield 1983): Mandibular left lacinia mobilis basically 5-(rarely 4-)dentate; sternal gills (when present) single, mid-ventral; gnathopods usually weakly or not sexually dimorphic, dactyls with elongate unguis.

<==Liljeborgioidea
    |--Synopiidae B77
    |--Sebidae R86
    |    |--Seba [Sebinae] H86
    |    |    |--S. antarctica N38
    |    |    `--S. dubia N38
    |    `--Seborgia Bousfield 1970 [incl. Relictoseborgia Karaman 1982; Seborgiinae] H86
    |         |--*S. minima H86
    |         `--S. relicta Holsinger 1980 [=Relictoseborgia relicta] H86
    |--Salentinellidae R86
    |    |--Parasalentinella Bou 1971 R86
    |    |    `--*P. rouchi Bou 1971 B77
    |    `--Salentinella Ruffo 1947 R86
    |         |--*S. gracillima Ruffo 1947 B77
    |         |--S. angelieri Ruffo & Delamare Deboutteville 1952 (see below for synonymy) R86
    |         |--S. delamarei Coineau 1962 R86
    |         |    |--S. d. delamarei R86
    |         |    `--S. d. macrocheles Coineau 1968 R86
    |         |--S. formenterae Platvoet 1984 R86
    |         |--S. gineti Balazuc 1957 (see below for synonymy) R86
    |         `--S. petiti Coineau 1968 R86
    `--Liljeborgiidae [Lilljeborgiidae] S86
         |--Idunella Sars 1895 S86
         |    |--I. pirata Krapp-Schickel 1975 BD95
         |    `--I. sketi Karaman 1980 S86
         `--Liljeborgia Bate 1862 MD01
              |--L. chevreuxi N38
              |--L. consanguinea N38
              |--L. dellavallei Stebbing 1906 BD95
              |--L. dubius N38
              |--L. fissicornis BV01
              |--L. georgiana N38
              |--L. longicornis N38
              |--L. macrodon N38
              |--L. pallida (Bate 1857) BD95
              |--L. psaltrica Krapp-Schickel 1975 BD95
              |--L. quadridentata N38
              `--L. serratoides KBC03

Nomina nuda: Salentinella hispanica Bou in Ruffo 1986
             Salentinella ruffoi Bou in Ruffo 1986

Salentinella angelieri Ruffo & Delamare Deboutteville 1952 [incl. S. gracillima balcanica Karaman 1953, S. denticulata Baschieri Salvadori 1952, S. franciscoloi Ruffo 1953, S. juberthieae Coineau 1968, S. angelieri pisana Ruffoi 1953] R86

Salentinella gineti Balazuc 1957 [incl. S. lescherae Coineau 1968, S. major Barbé 1965, S. prognatha Barbé 1963] R86

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BD95] Bakalem, A. & J.-C. Dauvin. 1995. Inventaire des crustacés amphipodes (Gammaridea, Caprellidea, Hyperiidea) des costes d'Algérie: essai de synthèse. Mésogée 54: 49-62.

[BV01] Berge, J., & W. Vader. 2001. Revision of the amphipod (Crustacea) family Stegocephalidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133: 531-592.

[B77] Bousfield, E. L. 1977. A new look at the systematics of gammaroidean amphipods of the world. Crustaceana Suppl. 4: 282-316.

Bousfield, E. L. 1983. An updated phyletic classification and palaeohistory of the Amphipoda. In: Schram, F. R. (ed.) Crustacean Phylogeny, pp. 257-277. A. A. Balkema.

[H86] Holsinger, J. R. 1986. Amphipoda: Sebidae. In Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) (L. Botosaneanu, ed.) pp. 568-569. E. J. Brill / Dr. W. Backhuys: Leiden.

[KBC03] Kashin, I. A., E. V. Bagaveeva & S. F. Chaplygina. 2003. Fouling communities of hydrotechnical constructions in Nakhodka Bay (Sea of Japan). Russian Journal of Marine Biology 29: 267-283.

[MD01] Martin, J. W., & G. E. Davis. 2001. An updated classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum Los Angeles County, Science Series 39: 1-124.

[N38] Nicholls, G. E. 1938. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. Under the Leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson, O.B.E., B.E., D.Sc., F. R. S. Scientific Reports. Series C – Zoology and Botany vol. II, pt. 4. Amphipoda Gammaridea. David Harold Paisley, Government Printer: Sydney (Australia).

[R86] Ruffo, S. 1986. Amphipoda: Salentinellidae. In Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) (L. Botosaneanu, ed.) pp. 564-566. E. J. Brill / Dr. W. Backhuys: Leiden.

[S86] Stock, J. H. 1986. Amphipoda: Liljeborgiidae. In Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) (L. Botosaneanu, ed.) p. 563. E. J. Brill / Dr. W. Backhuys: Leiden.