{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{Automatic Taxobox | name = Phliantidae | taxon = Phliantidae | authority = Stebbing, 1899 | display_parents = 2 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text. }}
'''Phliantidae''' is a family of isopod-like amphipod crustaceans chiefly from the southern hemisphere.
==Description== Members of the family Phliantidae are unusual among the order Amphipoda, because they have dorso-ventrally flattened bodies with a pronounced dorsal keel, rather than being flattened side-to-side.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Phliantidae |author=Charles Oliver Coleman |year=2009 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2260 |pages=766–770 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02260p770.pdf}}</ref> Because of this, and various other factors, including the square-ended form of the rostrum, they resemble isopods.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sol Felty Light & James T. Carlton |year=2007 |title=The Light and Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon |edition=4th |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-23939-5 |chapter=Phliantidae |page=558 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=64jgZ1CfmB8C&pg=PA558}}</ref>
==Distribution and ecology== Most species are found in the Southern Hemisphere, where they live on algae in the intertidal zone.<ref>{{cite book |author=James K. Lowry |year=2003 |title=Peracarida : Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea |series=Volume 2, Part 2 of Zoological catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malacostraca |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |isbn=978-0-643-06902-2 |chapter=Phliantidae Stebbing, 1899 |pages=221–223 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5LTA9bAHqYC&pg=PA221}}</ref>
==Taxonomy==
Phliantidae was originally proposed by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing in 1899 for a group that also contained the genera currently placed in the family Prophliantidae, while ''Temnophlias'' has also been moved from Phliantidae to its own monotypic families.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Cristiana S. Serejo |year=2003 |title=Cladistic revision of talitroidean amphipods (Crustacea, Gammaridea), with a proposal of a new classification |journal=Zoologica Scripta |volume=33 |issue=6 |pages=551–586 |url=http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/70518.pdf |doi=10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00163.x|s2cid=85968161 }}</ref> It contains the following genera:<ref>{{cite web |author=Claude De Broyer, Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini |year=2010 |title=Phliantidae |editor=J. Lowry |work=World Amphipoda database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101402 |accessdate=October 9, 2010}}</ref> *''Iphinotus'' <small>Stebbing, 1899</small> *''Palinnotus'' <small>Stebbing, 1900</small> *''Pariphinotus'' <small>Kunkel, 1910</small> *''Pereionotus'' <small>Bate & Westwood, 1862</small> *''Plioplateia'' <small>Barnard, 1916</small>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
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Category:Talitrida Category:Taxa named by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing Category:Amphipod families