Urothoidae
Encyclopedia
Urothoidae is a family
of small marine amphipod
crustacean
s. Members of the family are found worldwide and are mainly detrivores and interface grazers, though some are also facultative filter feeder
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of small marine 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. Members of the family are found worldwide and are mainly detrivores and interface grazers, though some are also facultative filter feeder
Filter feeder
Filter feeders are animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure. Some animals that use this method of feeding are clams, krill, sponges, baleen whales, and many fish and some sharks. Some birds,...
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Genera
- Carangolia J.L. Barnard, 1961
- Cunicus Griffiths, 1974
- Pseudurothoe Ledoyer, 1986
- UrothoeUrothoeUrothoe is a genus of very small marine amphipod crustaceans in the family Urothoidae. Members of the genus are found worldwide.-Biology:...
Dana, 1852 - Urothoides Stebbing, 1891b
- Urothopsis Ledoyer, 1967