Ampelisca Krøyer, 1842

Poore, Gary C. B. & Lowry, James K., 2023, New Australian Species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and Eastern Australia with a Key to Australian Species, Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 75 (4), pp. 519-533 : 522

Ampelisca Krøyer, 1842

Type species. Ampelisca eschrichtii Krøyer, 1842 (by monotypy).

Remarks. Species of Ampelisca are distinguished from other genera in the family by the absence of setae on the anterior margin of the basis and the tapered broadly-based dactylus of pereopod 7. Species number 206 world-wide ( Horton et al., 2023). Lowry & Poore (1989) added ten new species to the two already known from Australia, largely from extensive collections made by environmental benthic surveys undertaken during the 1970s. Since then, two species have been described from the Great Barrier Reef by King (2009).