PHRONIMOIDEA Bowman & Gruner, 1973

Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), Zootaxa 567, pp. 1-66 : 8

Superfamily PHRONIMOIDEA Bowman & Gruner, 1973

Diagnosis

Antennae 1 inserted on anterior surface of head; flagellum of males long and filiform, composed of enlarged first article (callynophore), usually with dense brush of aesthestascs medially, and a series of shorter distal articles; flagellum of females one­articulate. Antennae 2 also inserted on anterior surface of head; reduced to few articles, rudimentary or absent in females; in males flagellum is long, multi­articulate, similar to A1 (rudimentary in male Phronima sedentaria ). Pereopod 5 sometimes with large subchela. Developing eggs and young held in brood pouch underneath pereon, made up of oostegites on pereonites 2–5.

Seven families: Phronimidae , Phrosinidae , Hyperiidae , Dairellidae , Lestrigonidae fam. nov., Bougisidae fam. nov. and Iulopididae fam. nov.