Dikerogammarus
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Dikerogammarus is a genus
of amphipod
crustacean
s, containing the following species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
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, containing the following species:
- Dikerogammarus aralychensis (Birstein, 1932)
- Dikerogammarus batalonicus Ponyi, 1955
- Dikerogammarus bispinosus Martynov, 1925
- Dikerogammarus caspius (Pallas, 1771)
- Dikerogammarus fluviatilis Martynov, 1919
- Dikerogammarus gruberi Mateus & Mateus, 1990
- Dikerogammarus haemobaphes (Eichwald, 1841)
- Dikerogammarus istanbulensis Özbek & Özkan, 2011
- Dikerogammarus oskari Birstein, 1945
- Dikerogammarus villosusDikerogammarus villosusDikerogammarus villosus, also known as the killer shrimp, is a species of amphipod crustacean native to the Ponto-Caspian region of eastern Europe, but which has become invasive across the western part of the continent. In the areas it has invaded, it lives in a wide range of habitats and will kill...
(Sowinsky, 1894)