The Senticaudata, a suborder of the Amphipoda – A commentary on d’Udekem d’Acoz and Verheye (2017)

By

Myers, Alan
Lowry, Jim

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

730

Pages

151-155

Subjects

Amphipoda , Classification , Phylogeny , Senticaudata

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.730.22126

 

Abstract

A response is given to criticisms in a recent paper of the validity of the amphipod suborder Senticaudata. The tacitly assumed status of truth implied in some molecular higher phylogenies is called in to question.