VIBILIOIDEA Bowman & Gruner, 1973

Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2003, A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Vibilioidea Bowman and Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), Zootaxa 280 (1), pp. 1-104 : 7

Superfamily VIBILIOIDEA Bowman & Gruner, 1973

Diagnosis

Antennae straight and relatively short. Antennae 1 inserted on anterior surface of head; peduncle of three short articles; flagellum composed of enlarged first article (callynophore), with dense brush of aesthetascs medially, and one or two tiny terminal articles. Antennae 2 inserted on anterior or ventral surface of head, composed of a few slender articles, sometimes reduced in females. Pereopods 3­7 always simple. Developing eggs and young held in brood pouch underneath pereon, made up of oostegites on pereonites 2­5.

Three families: Vibiliidae , Paraphronimidae and Cyllopodidae .