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Amphipoda
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Amphipoda () is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from 1 to 340 millimetres (0.039 to 13 in) and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. More than 10,700 amphipod species are currently recognized. They are mostly marine animals but are found in almost all aquatic environments. Some 2,250 species live in fresh water, and the order also includes the terrestrial sandhoppers, such as Talitrus saltator and Arcitalitrus sylvaticus.
Amphipods are small crustaceans with flattened bodies and no shell-like covering that live in oceans, freshwater, and on land, ranging from tiny creatures less than an inch long to ones over a foot in length. With over 10,700 known species, most amphipods survive by eating decaying matter and scavenging, making them important members of aquatic food webs and ecosystems.
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amphipods
Amphipoda
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderAmphipoda
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Research
3,115 papers- Pathogens and other symbionts of the Amphipoda: taxonomic diversity and pathological significance.ReviewDiseases of aquatic organisms · 2019Bojko J, Ovcharenko MDOI: 10.3354/dao03321
- Comparative Mitogenomics in Hyalella (Amphipoda: Crustacea).Genes · 2021Zapelloni F, Jurado-Rivera JA, Jaume D et al.DOI: 10.3390/genes12020292
- A review of the world Cyphocarididae with description of three new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea).ReviewZootaxa · 2015Hughes LE, Lowry JKDOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.1
- Two new species of Sarothrogammarus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Swat Valley, Pakistan.Zootaxa · 2024Xin W, Zhang C, Ali A et al.DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.4.3
- Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Subfamily Eosymtinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994.ReviewZootaxa · 2022Labay VSDOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.5.5
- A review of the hyperiidean amphipod genus Hyperoche Bovallius, 1887 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Hyperiidae), with the description of a new genus to accommodate H. shihi Gasca, 2005.ReviewZootaxa · 2015Zeidler WDOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.1
- Ampithoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.Zootaxa · 2022Momtazi FDOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.3.3
- Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Subfamily Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994.ReviewZootaxa · 2021Labay VSDOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.3
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12 sectionsContents
- Description
- Anatomy
- Size
- Reproduction and life cycle
- Ecology
- Foraging behaviour
- Nomenclature
- Taxonomy
- Fossil record
- See also
- References
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Amphipoda () is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from 1 to 340 millimetres (0.039 to 13 in) and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. More than 10,700 amphipod species are currently recognized. They are mostly marine animals but are found in almost all aquatic environments. Some 2,250 species live in fresh water, and the order also includes the terrestrial sandhoppers, such as Talitrus saltator and Arcitalitrus sylvaticus.
==Description== ===Anatomy=== thumb|Anatomical diagram of the gammaridean amphipod [[Leucothoe incisa]] Amphipods are characterized by sessile eyes (without eyestalks), no carapace, and the presence of gills on the coxae. Their bodies are divided into 13 segments, which can be grouped into the head, thorax and abdomen.