Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or orchestian.
The Gribble is often accompanied by another Crustacean of similar habits, the Amphipod Chelura terebrans.
In the South of England there is found not unfrequently in the water of wells a small colourless transparent Amphipod known as the "Well Shrimp" (Niphargus aquilex--Fig.
This is an Amphipod (Amphithoe rubricata) which builds the shelter for itself, sticking the fragments together with threads of a cementing material produced by glands on the surface of its body and legs.
In these points they resemble the shrimp-like forms, but there is no carapace, and all the somites of the thorax are distinct, so that the form of the body is rather that of an Amphipod or Isopod.
Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or orchestian.
Defn: An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella).
Defn: A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs.
Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the Limnoria, and the boring amphipod (Chelura terebrans).
Defn: Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidæ.
They are also found in some of the semi-terrestrial and purely aquatic Amphipod Crustaceans.
The Malpighian tubes of Hexapods are outgrowths of the proctodaeum, but those of Scorpion and the Amphipod Crustacea are part of the metenteron or endodermal gut, though originating near its junction with the proctodaeum.
An amphipod (Parathemisto libellula) and the euphausiids are less important.
An amphipodvery extensively spread over our sea-coasts, the Gammarus marinus, usually has its appendages covered with Vayinicola crystallina.
Maury has described certainamphipod crustaceans which also inhabit the Salpae.
This same angler lives in the northern seas, and there it harbours an amphipod crustacean, which until lately has escaped the vigilance of carcinologists.
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