Melphidippidae

{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| name = Melphidippidae

| taxon = Melphidippidae

| authority = Stebbing, 1899

| display_parents = 2

}}

Melphidippidae is a family of amphipods which rest upside-down and feed on particles of food suspended in the water.{{cite journal |author=Charles Oliver Coleman |title=Melphidippidae |year=2009 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2260 |pages=736–740 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02260p740.pdf |format=PDF |issue=Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia |editor=J. K. Lowry & A. A. Myers}} Three genera are recognised:{{cite web |author=Claude De Broyer, Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini |year=2010 |title=Melphidippidae |editor=J. Lowry |work=World Amphipoda database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101398 |accessdate=October 21, 2010}}

• Melphidippa Boeck, 1871
• Melphidippella Sars, 1894
• Melphisubchela Andres, 1981