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 Major Groups | Crustacea (crustaceans) | Malacostraca (malacostracans) | Amphipoda (sideswimmers)

Note: Key from King & Bradbury 2012

 
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1. 3rd uropod reduced; ramus, if present, minute; mandibles (M) without palps

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Chiltoniidae 

3rd uropod reduced

Talitridae 

ramus, minute

Chiltoniidae 

mandibles without palps

-3rd uropod prominent and biramous (with few exceptions); mandibles (M) with palps (P)
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Eusiridae 

3rd uropod prominent

Eusiridae 

3rd uropod biramous

Perthiidae 

mandibles with palps

Perthiidae 

mandibles with palps