Chelicorophium
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Chelicorophium is a genus of amphipod
crustacean
s, comprising the following species:
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, comprising the following species:
- Chelicorophium chelicorne (G. O. Sars, 1895)
- Chelicorophium curvispinumChelicorophium curvispinumChelicorophium curvispinum is a species of amphipod crustacean. It lives in salt, brackish and fresh water, and may reach in length. It occurs in the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea and adjoining rivers, and in river systems emptying into the southern Baltic and North Sea....
(G. O. Sars, 1895) - Chelicorophium madrasensis (Nayar, 1950)
- Chelicorophium maeoticum (Sowinsky, 1898)
- Chelicorophium monodon (G. O. Sars, 1895)
- Chelicorophium muconatum (G. O. Sars, 1895)
- Chelicorophium nobile (G. O. Sars, 1895)
- Chelicorophium robustum (G. O. Sars, 1895)
- Chelicorophium sowinsky (Martynov, 1924)
- Chelicorophium spinulosum (G. O. Sars, 1895)
- Chelicorophium spongicolum (Welitchkovsky, 1914)
- Chelicorophium villosus (Carausu, 1943)