Order Amphipoda
(amphipods)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

• Parent taxa
  
  
  
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  Superorder Peracarida
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  Order Amphipoda (amphipods)
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  Suborder Caprellidea (skeleton shrimp and whale lice)
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  Family Aeginellidae
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  Infraorder Caprellida
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  Superfamily Caprelloidea
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  Family Caprellidae
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  Superfamily Phtisicoidea
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  Family Phtisicidae
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  Infraorder Cyamida
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  Family Cyamidae
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  Suborder Gammaridea (gammarid amphipods)
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  Family Acanthonotozomatidae
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  Family Acanthonotozomellidae
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  Family Allocrangonyctidae
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  Family Ampeliscidae
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  Family Amphilochidae
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  Family Ampithoidae
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  Family Anamixidae
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  Family Anisogammaridae
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  Family Aoridae
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  Family Argissidae
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  Family Astyridae
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  Family Atylidae
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  Family Bateidae
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  Family Beaudettiidae
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  Family Biancolinidae
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  Family Bolttsiidae
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  Family Calliopidae
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  Family Carangoliopsidae
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  Family Cardenioidae
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  Family Ceinidae
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  Family Cheluridae
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  Family Colomastigidae
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  Family Corophiidae
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  Family Crangonyctidae
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  Family Cressidae
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  Family Cyproideidae
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  Family Dexaminidae
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  Family Dogielinotidae
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  Family Eophliantidae
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  Family Epimeriidae
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  Family Eusiridae
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  Family Gammarellidae
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  Family Gammaridae
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  Family Hadziidae
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  Family Haustoriidae
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  Family Hyalellidae
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  Family Hyalidae
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  Family Hyperiopsidae
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  Family Iphimediidae
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  Family Isaeidae
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  Family Ischyroceridae
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  Family Kuriidae
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  Family Laphystiidae
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  Family Laphystiopsidae
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  Family Lepechinellidae
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  Family Leucothoidae
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  Family Liljeborgiidae
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  Family Lysianassidae
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  Family Melitidae
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  Family Melphidippidae
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  Family Neomegamphopidae
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  Family Ochlesidae
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  Family Odiidae
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  Family Oedicerotidae
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  Family Pagetinidae
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  Family Paramphithoidae
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  Family Pardaliscidae
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  Family Phliantidae
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  Family Phoxocephalidae
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  Family Platyischnopidae
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  Family Pleustidae
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  Family Podoceridae
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  Family Prophliantidae
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  Family Pseudocrangonyctidae
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  Family Sebidae
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  Family Stegocephalidae
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  Family Stenothoidae
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  Family Stilipedidae
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  Family Synopiidae
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  Family Talitridae
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  Family Thaumatelsonidae
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  Family Urothoidae
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  Family Vitjazianidae
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  Family Zobrachoidae
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  Suborder Hyperiidea
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  Family Archaeoscinidae
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  Infraorder Physocephalata
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  Superfamily Lycaeopsoidea
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  Family Lycaeopsidae
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  Superfamily Phronimoidea
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  Family Dairellidae
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  Family Hyperiidae
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  Family Phronimidae
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  Family Phrosinidae
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  Superfamily Platysceloidea
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  Family Anapronoidae
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  Family Lycaeidae
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  Family Oxycephalidae
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  Family Parascelidae
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  Family Platyscelidae
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  Family Pronoidae
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  Superfamily Vibilioidea
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  Family Cystisomatidae
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  Family Paraphronimidae
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  Family Vibiliidae
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  Infraorder Physosomata
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  Superfamily Lanceoloidea
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  Family Chuneolidae
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  Family Lanceolidae
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  Family Microphasmatidae
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  Superfamily Scinoidea
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  Family Mimonectidae
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  Family Proscinidae
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  Family Scinidae
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  Suborder Ingolfiellidea
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  Family Ingolfiellidae