{{short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sunamphitoe pelagica.jpg | image_caption = Sunamphitoe pelagica (Milne-Edwards, 1830) - A benthic amphipod from the Belgian part of the North Sea. Length : 8 mm | taxon = Ampithoidae | authority = Boeck, 1871<ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |author=Lowry, J. |year=2010 |title=Ampithoidae Boeck, 1871 |db=Amphipoda |id=237282 |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=WoRMS/> | synonyms = *Ampithoinae<small>Boeck, 1871</small> *Biancolinidae<small> J.L. Barnard, 1972</small> *Exampithoinae<small> Myers & Lowry, 2003</small> }}
'''Ampithoidae''' is a family of amphipod crustaceans. The family has a worldwide distribution as algal dwellers. They commonly create tube-shaped nests on their host plants or algae which serve as both shelter and food. Young ampithoids develop from eggs to a larval stage within their mother's brood-pouch, formed by the appendages of her abdomen.
==Genera== The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera in this family:-
*''Amphithoides'' <small>Kossmann, 1880</small> *''Amphitholina'' <small>Ruffo, 1953</small> *''Ampithoe'' <small>Leach, 1814</small> *''Austrothoe'' <small>Peart, 2014</small> *''Biancolina'' <small>Della Valle, 1893</small> *''Cymadusa'' <small>Savigny, 1816</small> *''Exampithoe'' <small>K.H. Barnard, 1926</small> *''Macropisthopus'' <small>K.H. Barnard, 1916</small> *''Paradusa'' <small>Ruffo, 1969</small> *''Paragrubia'' <small>Chevreux, 1901</small> *''Paranexes'' <small>Peart, 2014</small> *''Pleonexes'' <small>Spence Bate, 1857</small> *''Plumithoe'' <small>Barnard & Karaman, 1991</small> *''Pseudamphithoides'' <small>Ortiz, 1976</small> (e.g. ''Pseudamphithoides incurvaria'') *''Pseudopleonexes'' <small>Conlan, 1982</small> *''Sunamphitoe'' <small>Spence Bate, 1857</small> (e.g. ''Sunamphitoe femorata'')
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==Further reading== * {{cite journal |last1=Cerda |first1=Osvaldo |last2=Hinojosa |first2=Iván A. |last3=Thiel |first3=Martin |title=Nest-Building Behavior by the Amphipod Peramphithoe femorata (Krøyer) on the Kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Linnaeus) C. Agardh From Northern-Central Chile |journal=The Biological Bulletin |date=June 2010 |volume=218 |issue=3 |pages=248–258 |doi=10.1086/BBLv218n3p248 |pmid=20570848 |s2cid=12067862 |hdl=10533/144364 |hdl-access=free }} * {{cite journal |last1=Peart |first1=Rachael A. |last2=Lörz |first2=Anne-Nina |title=Ampithoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from New Zealand |journal=ZooKeys |date=26 January 2018 |issue=733 |pages=25–48 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.733.14052 |pmid=29416406 |pmc=5799742 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2018ZooK..733...25P }}
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Category:Corophiida Category:Taxa described in 1871 Category:Amphipod families
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