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Macrohectopus branickii
Plate 1 of 3. (c) S.I. Didorenko in D. Karnaukhov, S. Biritskaya, M. Teplykh, N. Silenko, E. Dolinskaya, E. Silow, some rights reserved (CC BY) · via iNaturalist

Macrohectopus branickii

Macrohectopus branickii is a species of amphipod (a group containing the scuds) living in the pelagic zone of Lake Baikal, believed to be the only species of amphipod in this niche within freshwater (many more amphipods are pelagic/planktonic in the sea, such as the Hyperiids). It is the only known species within the genus Macrohectopus and the only member of the family Macrohectopidae.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1361328.