Neogammarus rheophilus (Stock & Sànchez, 1990)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Rhipidogammarus rheophilus Stock & Sànchez, 1990
Conservation Status
Extinct (Lüderitz et al., 2016:Table 2)
Last record: 1990's
Distribution & Habitat
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Macaronesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Stock, Jan H. and Sánchez, Elias. (1990). First record of Crustacea Malacostraca from fresh waters in the Canary Islands. Hydrobiologia 206(1): 53-59. [Abstract]
Other references:
Horton, T., Lowry, J., De Broyer, C., Bellan-Santini, D., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Corbari, L., Costello, M. J., Daneliya, M., Dauvin, J.-C., Fišer, C., Gasca, R., Grabowski, M., Guerra-García, J. M., Hendrycks, E., Hughes, L., Jaume, D., Jazdzewski, K., Kim, Y.-H., King, R., Krapp-Schickel, T., LeCroy, S., Lörz, A.-N., Mamos, T., Senna, A. R., Serejo, C., Souza-Filho, J. F., Tandberg, A. H., Thomas, J. D., Thurston, M., Vader, W., Väinölä, R., Valls Domedel, G., Vonk, R., White, K. and Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Neogammarus rheophilus (Stock & Sànchez, 1990). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/amphipoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1732093 on 2026-10-02
Lüderitz, Volker, Arévalo, José Ramón, Fernández-Palacios, José María, Fernández-Lugo, Silvia, Eller, Katharina and Langheinrich, Uta. (2016). Freshwater endemic species and the ecological status of streams in the Canary Islands. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 14: 45-54.
Rosas-Ramos, N., Jurado-Angulo, P., Rodríguez-Flores, P. C. and García-Paris, M. (2023). Nomenclatural problems caused by type species designation in Gammaridae (Amphipoda). Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 46: 173-176. https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2023.46.0173