Acanthogammaridae - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Acanthogammaridae is a family of amphipod

Amphipoda

Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. The name amphipoda means "different-footed", and refers to the different forms of appendages, unlike isopods, where all the legs are alike. Of the 7,000 species, 5,500 are classified...

crustacean

Crustacean

Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...

s, endemic to Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is the world's oldest at 30 million years old and deepest lake with an average depth of 744.4 metres.Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the...

. It contains the following subfamilies and genera:

Acanthogammarinae Garjajewia, 1901

Acanthogammarus Stebbing, 1899
Boeckaxelia Schellenberg, 1940
Brachyuropus Stebbing, 1899
Brandtia Bate, 1862
Carinurus Sowinsky, 1915
Cheirogammarus Sowinsky, 1915
Coniurus Sowinsky, 1915
Cornugammarus Kamaltynov, 2001
Dedyuola Kamaltynov, 2001
Diplacanthus Kamaltynov, 2001
Dorogammarus Bazikalova, 1945
Dorogostaiskia Kamaltynov, 2001
Eucarinogammarus Sowinsky, 1915
Issykogammarus Chevreux, 1908
Metapallasea Bazikalova, 1959
Oxyacanthus Kamaltynov, 2001

Carinogammarinae Tachteew, 2000

Aspretus Kamaltynov, 2001
Asprogammarus Bazikalova, 1975
Carinogammarus Stebbing, 1899
Echiuropus Sowinsky, 1915
Eremogammarus Kamaltynov, 2001
Pseudomicruropus Bazikalova, 1961
Smaragdogammarus Bazikalova, 1975

Hyalellopsinae Kamaltynov, 1999

Gammarosphaera Bazikalova, 1936
Hyalellopsis Stebbing, 1899

Parapallaseinae Kamaltynov, 1999

Ceratogammarus Sowinsky, 1915
Palicarcinus Barnard & Barnard, 1983
Parapallasea Stebbing, 1899

Plesiogammarinae Kamaltynov, 1999

Garjajewia Sowinsky, 1915
Koshovia Bazikalova, 1975
Paragarjajewia Bazikalova, 1945
Plesiogammarus Stebbing, 1899
Sentogammarus Kamaltynov, 2001
Supernogammarus Kamaltynov, 2001

Poekilogammarinae Kamaltynov, 1999

Bathygammarus Bazikalova, 1945
Gymnogammarus Sowinsky, 1915
Inobsequentus Takhteev, 2000
Nyctoporea Kamaltynov, 2001
Onychogammarus Sowinsky, 1915
Poekilogammarus Stebbing, 1899
Rostrogammarus Bazikalova, 1945

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