Gammarus
See also: gammarus
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin gammarus (“lobster”).
Proper noun
Gammarus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Gammaridae – typical scuds, small crustaceans resembling sand fleas.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Peracarida – superorder; Amphipoda – order; Senticaudata – suborder; Gammarida – infrorder; Gammaridira – parvorder; Gammaroidea – superfamily; Gammaridae – family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Gammarus pulex - type species; for other species see Gammarus at World Register of Marine Species
Derived terms
- Akerogammarus
- Albanogammarus
- Cephalogammarus
- Chaetogammarus
- Comatogammarus
- Condiciogammarus
- Dikerogammarus
- Echinogammarus
- Homoeogammarus
- Jubeogammarus
- Jugogammarus
- Lanceogammarus
- Laurogammarus
- Longigammarus
- Lunulogammarus
- Lusigammarus
- Marinogammarus
- Neogammarus
- Parhomoeogammarus
- Pectenogammarus
- Relictogammarus
- Rhipidogammarus
- Sarothrogammarus
- Shablogammarus
- Sinogammarus
- Trichogammarus
- Tyrrhenogammarus
Descendants
- → Arabic: غَمَّار (ḡammār)
- → Bulgarian: гама́рус (gamárus)
- → French: gammare
- → Russian: гамма́рус (gammárus)
- → Ukrainian: гама́рус (hamárus)
References
- Gammarus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Gammarus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Gammarus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Gammarus at World Register of Marine Species
- Gammarus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Gammarus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- “Gammarus”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026