Amphipoda lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp
• An order of mostly marine CRUSTACEA containing more than 5500 species in over 100 families. Like ISOPODA, the other large order in the superorder Peracarida, members are shrimp-like in appearance, have sessile compound eyes, and no carapace. But unlike Isopoda, they possess thoracic gills and their bodies are laterally compressed.