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ABSTRACT INDEX - PART III SUPPLEMENT 6

ABSTRACT INDEX - PART III SUPPLEMENT 6 SUPPLEMENT 6 673 Crustaceana Supplement 6 pp. 5-16 CLASSIFICATION OF GAMMARID AMPHIPODA J. L. BARNARD Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. G. S. KARAMAN Biological Institute, Titograd, Yugoslavia The lack of de® nable discontiguous clusters in gammarid Amphipoda prevents nemenclatural recognition of superfamilies, families, and subfamilies. The names proposed by Bous® eld (1977) are reduced to appellations to be used, (and to be very useful) in discussing evolutionary sequencing in the group. Unfortunately, too many of the links between and among the various familial groups remain alive and form transitions that erase almost all discontiguites worthy of nomenclatural recognition. We insist on the complete discontiguity of families when named formally in the Linnaean system of nomenclature. In discussing evolutionary deployment, the familial clusters identi® ed by Bous® eld become very useful; we alter many of these concepts, for example: 1. The Niphargus group superfamily is reduced to minor rank and brought near to Eriopisella in the melitid group. 2. The Bogidielloids are placed near the crangonyctoids and the pseudocrangonyctids inserted between them gradationally (but as a sidebranch of crangonyctids cladistically). 3. The hadziids and melitids are amalgamated, reduced to a low level group which is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crustaceana Brill

ABSTRACT INDEX - PART III SUPPLEMENT 6

Crustaceana , Volume 72 (10): 673 – Jan 1, 1999
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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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SUPPLEMENT 6 673 Crustaceana Supplement 6 pp. 5-16 CLASSIFICATION OF GAMMARID AMPHIPODA J. L. BARNARD Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. G. S. KARAMAN Biological Institute, Titograd, Yugoslavia The lack of de® nable discontiguous clusters in gammarid Amphipoda prevents nemenclatural recognition of superfamilies, families, and subfamilies. The names proposed by Bous® eld (1977) are reduced to appellations to be used, (and to be very useful) in discussing evolutionary sequencing in the group. Unfortunately, too many of the links between and among the various familial groups remain alive and form transitions that erase almost all discontiguites worthy of nomenclatural recognition. We insist on the complete discontiguity of families when named formally in the Linnaean system of nomenclature. In discussing evolutionary deployment, the familial clusters identi® ed by Bous® eld become very useful; we alter many of these concepts, for example: 1. The Niphargus group superfamily is reduced to minor rank and brought near to Eriopisella in the melitid group. 2. The Bogidielloids are placed near the crangonyctoids and the pseudocrangonyctids inserted between them gradationally (but as a sidebranch of crangonyctids cladistically). 3. The hadziids and melitids are amalgamated, reduced to a low level group which is

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