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amphipod

NOUN
  1. a kind of malacostracan crustacean

How To Use amphipod In A Sentence

  • In addition to fish, Pterois volitans feed on invertebrates such as amphipods, isopods, and other crustaceans.
  • The amphipod Gammarus tigrinus exhibits a range of feeding behaviors, including that of macrophagous grazer and shredder, and predator / cannibal.
  • An amphipod supposedly inspired the monster in the movie Alien.
  • For example, crickets infected with bacteria, Drosophila infested with mites, and amphipods harboring trematodes all increase reproductive activity.
  • Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
  • While in freshwater, Chinook Salmon fry and smolts feed on plankton and then terrestrial and aquatic insects, amphipods and crustaceans.
  • The newly hatched young amphipods stay in the marsupium until the female undergoes a post-copulatory moult. Crustacea
  • A new species of amphipod (a small crustacean) may have been discovered in a cave pool in Summit County, Ohio. New Amphipod in Ohio
  • As for what kind of creature grew to that size, the monster does somewhat resemble animals in the amphipod order.
  • Tiny baitfish feed on these amphipods, and the next point in the cycle provides food for larger fish, which in turn nurture popular gamefish, among others.
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