Hyalidae Bulycheva, 1957

Hughes, Lauren E. & Lowry, James K., 2006, New species of Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Solitary Islands, New South Wales, Australia, Zootaxa 1222, pp. 1-52 : 3-5

Hyalidae Bulycheva, 1957

Serejo (2004) revised the higher classification of the talitridan amphipods based on cladistic analysis. The Talitroidea Rafinesque, 1815 is elevated to infraorder (Talitrida) and the Hyalidae is considered to be a sister taxon of the Dogielinotidae Gurjanova, 1953 . The subfamilies of the Dogielinotidae include Dogielinotinae , Gurjanova, 1953, Hyalellinae Bulycheva, 1957 and Najniinae , J.L. Barnard, 1972 (new status). The Hyalidae is divided into two subfamilies, Hyacheliinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 2002 and Hyalinae Bulycheva, 1957 . This classification differs from Bousfield & Hendrycks (2002) who also included the Kuriinae as a subfamily of Hyalidae , which has now been elevated to family ( Kuriidae ) and superfamily (Kurioidea) status based on Serejo (2004).

Bousfield & Hendrycks (2002) revised the genera of the Hyalinae (of Serejo 2004) and established five new genera, Apohyale , Protohyale , Ptilohyale , Ruffohyale and Serejohyale . In Australia, the genera Apohyale , Parhyale and Ptilohyale are each represented by single species, Apohyale media ( Dana, 1853) , Parhyale longicornis ( Haswell, 1879) and Ptilohyale crassicornis ( Haswell, 1879) . The genus Neobule Haswell, 1879 , described from Australia, remains unidentifiable owing to the poor descriptive state of this taxon ( Bousfield & Hendrycks 2002; Lowry & Stoddart 2003; Serejo 2004).

The remaining Australian hyalids fall into the genus Protohyale , which is divided into four subgenera Boreohyale Bousfield & Hendrycks, 2002 , Diplohyale Bousfield & Hendrycks, 2002 , Leptohyale Bousfield & Hendrycks, 2002 , and Protohyale Bousfield & Hendrycks, 2002 . This subgeneric classification was only partially applied to the Australian species, with only six of the then known eleven Australian “ Hyale s” s pecies placed in subgeneric groups. The omitted species and the two species described here do not conform to the proposed Protohyale subgeneric classification. Therefore, the subgeneric classification is not applied to the Australian Protohyale species.