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Amphipods
Amphipoda
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. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far described. They are mostly marine animals, but are found in almost all aquatic environments. Some 1,900 species live in fresh water, and the order also includes terrestrial animals and sandhoppers such as Talitrus...
10 branches of this order, most-observed first
Senticaudata
suborderSenticaudata
Amphilochidea
suborderAmphilochidea
Hyperiidea
suborderHyperiidea
Paramphithoidae
familyParamphithoidae
Iciliidae
familyIciliidae
Colomastigidea
suborderColomastigidea
Pseudingolfiellidea
suborderPseudingolfiellidea
Hyperiopsidea
suborderHyperiopsidea
Sanchoidae
familySanchoidae
Regaliidae
familyRegaliidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 47628.