But try explaining that to an amphipod impaled and partially digested on the branches of a killer sponge in the deep Pacific. |
The most important inhabitant of the mudflat, and among the most numerous, is the small tube-building amphipod, Corophium volutator. |
At the high tide mark in the jetsam watch for the jumping shapes of an amphipod, called beach flea or beach hopper. |
This species is a cold-water Arctic amphipod known as Themisto libellula, or simply. |
Roswell springsnail, Koster's tryonia and Pecos assiminea are small aquatic snails, while the Noel's amphipod is a freshwater shrimp. |
We found the amphipod G. tigrinus to be consumed by mummichog and white perch. |