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Family: Ampeliscidae



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215 species
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Ampelisca abdita
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Ampelisca abyssicola
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Ampelisca acinaces
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Ampelisca acris
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Ampelisca aequicornis
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Ampelisca agassizi
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Ampelisca albedo
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Ampelisca amblyops
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Ampelisca amblyopsoides
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Ampelisca anisuropa
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Ampelisca anomala
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Ampelisca anophthalma
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Ampelisca antarctica
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Ampelisca antennata
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Ampelisca anversensis
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Ampelisca araucana
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Ampelisca armoricana
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Ampelisca australis
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Ampelisca ballina
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Ampelisca barnardi
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Ampelisca bicarinata
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Ampelisca bidentata
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Ampelisca bidura
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Ampelisca birulai
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Ampelisca bocki
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Ampelisca bouvieri
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Ampelisca brachyceras
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Ampelisca brachycladus
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Ampelisca bransfieldi
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Ampelisca brevicornis
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Ampelisca brevisimulata
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Ampelisca burkei
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Ampelisca byblisoides
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Ampelisca calooma
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Ampelisca calypsonis
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Ampelisca careyi
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Ampelisca chiltoni
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Ampelisca chinensis
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Ampelisca coeca
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Ampelisca compacta
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Ampelisca composita
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Ampelisca cristata
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Ampelisca cristoides
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Ampelisca ctenopus
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Ampelisca cucullata
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Ampelisca cyclops
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Ampelisca dallenei
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Ampelisca dalmatina
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Ampelisca declivitatis
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Ampelisca dentifera
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Ampelisca dentitelson
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Ampelisca diadema
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Ampelisca dimboola
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Ampelisca dingaal
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Ampelisca eoa
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Ampelisca erythrorhabdota
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Ampelisca eschrichti
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Ampelisca euroa
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Ampelisca excavata
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Ampelisca fageri
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Ampelisca furcigera
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Ampelisca fusca
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Ampelisca gibba
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Ampelisca gracilicauda
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Ampelisca gusta
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Ampelisca hancocki
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Ampelisca hawaiensis
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Ampelisca hemicryptops
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Ampelisca hermosa
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Ampelisca hessleri
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Ampelisca heterodactyla
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Ampelisca holmesi
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Ampelisca hongkongensis
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Ampelisca honmungensis
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Ampelisca hupferi
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Ampelisca incerta
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Ampelisca indentata
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Ampelisca insignis
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Ampelisca io
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Ampelisca jaffaensis
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Ampelisca japonica
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Ampelisca jarli
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Ampelisca jiigurru
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Ampelisca latifrons
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Ampelisca latipes
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Ampelisca ledoyeri
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Ampelisca lenaldei
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Ampelisca limicola
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Ampelisca lobata
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Ampelisca lunata
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Ampelisca macrocephala
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Ampelisca macrodonta
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Ampelisca maia
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Ampelisca malakalensis
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Ampelisca massiliensis
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Ampelisca melanesiensis
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Ampelisca melitae
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Ampelisca mexicana
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Ampelisca miharaensis
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Ampelisca milleri
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Ampelisca mindorensis
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Ampelisca miops
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Ampelisca misakiensis
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Ampelisca mississippiana
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Ampelisca monoculata
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Ampelisca monodi
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Ampelisca multispinosa
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Ampelisca naikaiensis
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Ampelisca nanshaensis
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Ampelisca natalensis
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Ampelisca nossibeensis
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Ampelisca odontoplax
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Ampelisca orops
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Ampelisca pacifica
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Ampelisca palmata
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Ampelisca panamensis
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Ampelisca parapacifica
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Ampelisca parapanamensis
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Ampelisca paria
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Ampelisca planierensis
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Ampelisca plumosa
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Ampelisca provincialis
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Ampelisca pseudosarsi
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Ampelisca pseudospinimana
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Ampelisca pugetica
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Ampelisca pusilla
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Ampelisca pygmaea
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Ampelisca remora
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Photo by Arntz, Wolf E.

Southern Ocean

Ampelisca richardsoni Karaman, 1975

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Ampelisca richardsoni
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Ampelisca romigi
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Ampelisca rostrata
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Ampelisca rubella
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Ampelisca ruffoi
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Ampelisca sarsi
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Ampelisca scabripes
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Ampelisca schellenbergi
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Ampelisca senegalensis
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Ampelisca serraticaudata
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Ampelisca shoemakeri
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Ampelisca soleata
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Ampelisca spinicaudata
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Ampelisca spinifer
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Ampelisca spinimana
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Ampelisca spinipes
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Ampelisca spooneri
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Ampelisca statenensis
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Ampelisca stenopa
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Ampelisca subbrevicornis
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Ampelisca tansani
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Ampelisca tenuicornis
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Ampelisca tilpa
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Ampelisca toora
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Ampelisca toulemonti
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Ampelisca tridens
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Ampelisca truncata
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Ampelisca tulearensis
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Ampelisca typica
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Ampelisca uncinata
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Ampelisca unidentata
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Ampelisca unsocalae
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Ampelisca vadorum
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Ampelisca venetiensis
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Ampelisca verga
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Ampelisca verrilli
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Ampelisca vervecei
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Ampelisca yuleba
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Ampelisca zamboangae
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Byblis affinis
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Byblis antarctica
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Byblis arcticus
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Byblis barbarensis
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Byblis bathyalis
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Byblis brachycephala
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Byblis brachyura
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Byblis brevirama
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Byblis calisto
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Byblis crassicornis
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Byblis erythrops
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Byblis febris
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Byblis gaimardi
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Byblis japonicus
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Byblis kallarthrus
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Byblis levis
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Byblis longicornis
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Byblis longispina
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Byblis medialis
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Byblis millsi
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Byblis minuticornis
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Byblis mucronata
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Byblis mulleni
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Byblis pearcyi
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Byblis pilosa
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Byblis pirloti
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Byblis plumosa
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Byblis rhinoceros
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Byblis robustus
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Antarctic Atlantic.

Byblis securiger (Barnard, 1931)

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Byblis securiger
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Byblis serrata
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Byblis subantarctica
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Byblis tannerensis
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Byblis teres
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Byblis thyabilis
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Byblis veleronis
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Byblis verae
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Haploops faroensis
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Haploops fundiensis
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Haploops laevis
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Haploops lodo
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Haploops robusta
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Haploops setosa
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Haploops sibirica
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Haploops similis
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Haploops tenuis
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Haploops truncata
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Haploops tubicola
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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Ampelisca abdita Western Central Atlantic 1964
Ampelisca abyssicola Western Atlantic
Ampelisca acinaces Western Atlantic
Ampelisca acris Western Atlantic
Ampelisca aequicornis Arctic; Northern Atlantic 1859
Ampelisca agassizi Eastern Pacific and Weste 1896
Ampelisca albedo Eastern Pacific and Weste
Ampelisca amblyops Eastern Pacific and Weste 1891
Ampelisca amblyopsoides Arctic; Northwest Atlanti 1960
Ampelisca anisuropa Arctic; Northwest Atlanti
Ampelisca anomala Arctic; Northwest Atlanti 1882
Ampelisca anophthalma Arctic; Northwest Atlanti
Ampelisca antarctica Arctic; Northwest Atlanti 1991
Ampelisca antennata Arctic; Northwest Atlanti
Ampelisca anversensis Southern Ocean
Ampelisca araucana Southeast Pacific 1963
Ampelisca armoricana Southeast Pacific 1981
Ampelisca australis Southeast Pacific
Ampelisca ballina Southeast Pacific
Ampelisca barnardi Southern Ocean 1938
Ampelisca bicarinata Western Central Atlantic 1983
Ampelisca bidentata Western Central Atlantic
Ampelisca bidura Western Central Atlantic
Ampelisca birulai Western Central Atlantic 1909
Ampelisca bocki Western Pacific 1944
Ampelisca bouvieri Antarctic Atlantic 1912
Ampelisca brachyceras Antarctic Atlantic
Ampelisca brachycladus Antarctic Atlantic 1990
Ampelisca bransfieldi Antarctic Atlantic
Ampelisca brevicornis Western Pacific, Northeas 1853
Ampelisca brevisimulata Western Atlantic 1954
Ampelisca burkei Western Atlantic 1989
Ampelisca byblisoides Western Atlantic
Ampelisca calooma Western Atlantic
Ampelisca calypsonis Western Atlantic
Ampelisca careyi Northeast Pacific 1982
Ampelisca chiltoni Northeast Pacific
Ampelisca chinensis Western Central Pacific 1967
Ampelisca coeca Western Central Pacific 1908
Ampelisca compacta Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca composita Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca cristata Western Atlantic 1908
Ampelisca cristoides Western Atlantic 1954
Ampelisca ctenopus Western Atlantic
Ampelisca cucullata Western Atlantic
Ampelisca cyclops Western Pacific 1904
Ampelisca dallenei Western Pacific
Ampelisca dalmatina Western Pacific
Ampelisca declivitatis Arctic and Northwest Atla 1967
Ampelisca dentifera Arctic and Northwest Atla 1931
Ampelisca dentitelson Arctic and Northwest Atla
Ampelisca diadema Northeast Atlantic and th 1853
Ampelisca dimboola Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca dingaal Western Central Pacific 2009
Ampelisca eoa Western Central Pacific 1951
Ampelisca erythrorhabdota Western Central Pacific 1989
Ampelisca eschrichti Arctic, Northern Atlantic 1842
Ampelisca euroa Arctic, Northern Atlantic
Ampelisca excavata Arctic, Northern Atlantic
Ampelisca fageri Northeast Pacific 1982
Ampelisca furcigera Northwest Pacific 1936
Ampelisca fusca Northwest Pacific
Ampelisca gibba Arctic and Northwest Atla 1882
Ampelisca gracilicauda Antarctic Atlantic 1931
Ampelisca gusta Antarctic Atlantic
Ampelisca hancocki Northeast Pacific 1954
Ampelisca hawaiensis Northeast Pacific
Ampelisca hemicryptops Northeast Pacific
Ampelisca hermosa Northeast Pacific
Ampelisca hessleri Northeast Pacific 1982
Ampelisca heterodactyla Northeast Pacific
Ampelisca holmesi Western Atlantic 1908
Ampelisca hongkongensis Northwest Pacific 1991
Ampelisca honmungensis Western Central Pacific 1967
Ampelisca hupferi Northwest Pacific 1925
Ampelisca incerta Northwest Pacific
Ampelisca indentata Northwest Pacific 1954
Ampelisca insignis Northwest Pacific
Ampelisca io Western Central Pacific 1967
Ampelisca jaffaensis Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca japonica Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca jarli Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca jiigurru Western Central Pacific 2009
Ampelisca latifrons Northwest Pacific 1925
Ampelisca latipes Arctic and Northwest Atla 1925
Ampelisca ledoyeri Arctic and Northwest Atla
Ampelisca lenaldei Arctic and Northwest Atla
Ampelisca limicola Arctic and Northwest Atla
Ampelisca lobata Pacific Ocean and Western 1908
Ampelisca lunata Pacific Ocean and Western
Ampelisca macrocephala Arctic, Northern Pacific 1852
Ampelisca macrodonta Arctic, Northern Pacific 1987
Ampelisca maia Western Central Pacific 1967
Ampelisca malakalensis Western Central Pacific 2012
Ampelisca massiliensis Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca melanesiensis Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca melitae Western Central Pacific
Ampelisca mexicana Western Atlantic 1954
Ampelisca miharaensis Western Pacific 1959
Ampelisca milleri Southeast Pacific 1954
Ampelisca mindorensis Western Central Pacific 1970
Ampelisca miops Northwest Pacific 1916
Ampelisca misakiensis Western Pacific 1944
Ampelisca mississippiana Western Central Atlantic 2007
Ampelisca monoculata Western Central Atlantic
Ampelisca monodi Western Central Atlantic
Ampelisca multispinosa Western Central Atlantic
Ampelisca naikaiensis Northwest Pacific 1959
Ampelisca nanshaensis Northwest Pacific 1991
Ampelisca natalensis Northwest Pacific
Ampelisca nossibeensis Northwest Pacific
Ampelisca odontoplax Northwest Pacific 1891
Ampelisca orops Western Central Pacific 1967
Ampelisca pacifica Western Atlantic 1908
Ampelisca palmata Western Atlantic
Ampelisca panamensis Western Atlantic 1954
Ampelisca parapacifica Western Atlantic 1984
Ampelisca parapanamensis Western Atlantic
Ampelisca paria Western Atlantic
Ampelisca planierensis Western Atlantic
Ampelisca plumosa Western Atlantic 1908
Ampelisca provincialis Western Atlantic 1977
Ampelisca pseudosarsi Mediterranean
Ampelisca pseudospinimana Mediterranean
Ampelisca pugetica Eastern Pacific and Weste 1864
Ampelisca pusilla Eastern Pacific and Weste
Ampelisca pygmaea Eastern Pacific and Weste
Ampelisca remora Eastern Pacific and Weste
Ampelisca richardsoni Southern Ocean 1975
Ampelisca romigi Pacific Ocean. 1954
Ampelisca rostrata Pacific Ocean.
Ampelisca rubella Pacific Ocean.
Ampelisca ruffoi Mediterranean
Ampelisca sarsi Northeast Atlantic 1887
Ampelisca scabripes Northeast Atlantic
Ampelisca schellenbergi Western Atlantic 1933
Ampelisca senegalensis Western Atlantic
Ampelisca serraticaudata Western Atlantic
Ampelisca shoemakeri Western Atlantic 1954
Ampelisca soleata Western Atlantic
Ampelisca spinicaudata Western Atlantic
Ampelisca spinifer Western Atlantic 1951
Ampelisca spinimana Northeast Atlantic 1900
Ampelisca spinipes Arctic and Northern Atlan 1861
Ampelisca spooneri Arctic and Northern Atlan 1982
Ampelisca statenensis Arctic and Northern Atlan
Ampelisca stenopa Northwest Pacific 1925
Ampelisca subbrevicornis Northwest Pacific
Ampelisca tansani Northwest Pacific 1991
Ampelisca tenuicornis Arctic and Atlantic Ocean 1855
Ampelisca tilpa Arctic and Atlantic Ocean
Ampelisca toora Arctic and Atlantic Ocean
Ampelisca toulemonti Arctic and Atlantic Ocean 1982
Ampelisca tridens Arctic and Atlantic Ocean
Ampelisca truncata Arctic and Atlantic Ocean
Ampelisca tulearensis Arctic and Atlantic Ocean
Ampelisca typica Northeast Atlantic and th 1856
Ampelisca uncinata Northeast Atlantic and th 1887
Ampelisca unidentata Northeast Atlantic and th
Ampelisca unsocalae Northeast Pacific 1960
Ampelisca vadorum Western Central Atlantic 1963
Ampelisca venetiensis Western Atlantic 1916
Ampelisca verga Western Atlantic
Ampelisca verrilli Western Atlantic 1967
Ampelisca vervecei Western Atlantic
Ampelisca yuleba Western Atlantic
Ampelisca zamboangae Western Atlantic
Byblis affinis Western Atlantic 1895
Byblis antarctica Western Atlantic 1931
Byblis arcticus Western Atlantic 1970
Byblis barbarensis Western Atlantic 1960
Byblis bathyalis Western Atlantic 1966
Byblis brachycephala Western Atlantic 1971
Byblis brachyura Northwest Pacific 1968
Byblis brevirama Northwest Pacific 1983
Byblis calisto Western Central Pacific 1967
Byblis crassicornis Arctic and Northern Atlan 1875
Byblis erythrops Arctic 1882
Byblis febris Western Central Pacific 1967
Byblis gaimardi Arctic and Northern Atlan 1846
Byblis japonicus Northwest Pacific 1944
Byblis kallarthrus Western Pacific 1887
Byblis levis Western Central Pacific 2012
Byblis longicornis Northeast Atlantic 1895
Byblis longispina Northeast Atlantic 1983
Byblis medialis Northeast Atlantic 1971
Byblis millsi Northeast Pacific 1983
Byblis minuticornis Northeast Atlantic and th 1879
Byblis mucronata Northwest Pacific 1936
Byblis mulleni Northeast Pacific 1983
Byblis pearcyi Northeast Pacific and the 1983
Byblis pilosa Western Central Pacific 1967
Byblis pirloti Northwest Pacific 1968
Byblis plumosa Northwest Pacific 1968
Byblis rhinoceros Northwest Pacific 1936
Byblis robustus Northwest Pacific 1989
Byblis securiger Antarctic Atlantic. 1931
Byblis serrata Northwest Pacific, Arctic 1873
Byblis subantarctica Northwest Pacific, Arctic 1931
Byblis tannerensis Northwest Pacific, Arctic 1966
Byblis teres Northwest Pacific, Arctic 1967
Byblis thyabilis Northwest Pacific, Arctic 1971
Byblis veleronis Northeast Pacific 1954
Byblis verae Northwest Pacific 1968
Haploops faroensis Northwest Pacific 2021
Haploops fundiensis Northwest Pacific 1982
Haploops laevis Arctic and Northwest Atla 1882
Haploops lodo Arctic and Northwest Atla 1961
Haploops robusta Arctic and Northwest Atla
Haploops setosa Arctic and Northwest Atla 1871
Haploops sibirica Arctic 1929
Haploops similis Arctic 1925
Haploops tenuis Northeast Atlantic 1966
Haploops truncata Northeast Atlantic 2021
Haploops tubicola Northern Atlantic and the 1855



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