Pallasea

Pallasea
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Family: Pallaseidae
Genus: Pallasea
Spence Bate, 1863

Pallasea is a genus of amphipod crustaceans in the family Pallaseidae.

Currently the species in the genus only comprise three taxa from Lake Baikal and the Angara river downstream.

  • Pallasea angarensis Dorogostaisky, 1917
  • Pallasea cancellus (Pallas, 1772)
  • Pallasea gerstfeldtii (Dybowsky, 1874)

The concept of the genus was previously wider, comprising also species in the current genera Homalogammarus, Pentagonurus, Babr and Pallaseopsis.

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