order Amphipoda

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order Amphipoda - small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp

Amphipoda

animal order - the order of animals

Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca - largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies

amphipod - a kind of malacostracan crustacean

family Orchestiidae, Orchestiidae - beach fleas

Caprella, genus Caprella - skeleton shrimp

Cyamus, genus Cyamus - whale lice

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Interestingly, this study is the first evidence of vertical transmission of a microsporidium in decapods (Order Decapoda) within the same Class Malacostraca, Subphylum Crustacea and Phylum Arthropoda with Order Amphipoda. Among arthropods, gammarids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) are a group in which vertically transmitted microsporidia infections are widespread (4).

Vertical Transmission and Early Diagnosis of the Microsporidian Enterocytozoon hepatonaei in Whiteleg Shrimp Penaeus vannamei

The other two chapters cover order Amphipoda and order Tanaedacea.

The Crustacea: Revised and Updated, as Well as Extended From the Trait de Zoologie; Volume 5

Caprellidea, a suborder of the order Amphipoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Peracarida), comprises more than 300 described species and is classified into eight families (Caprellidae, Caprellinoididae, Caprogammaridae, Cyamidae, Paracercopidae, Pariambidae, Phtisicidae, and Protellidae; Laubitz, 1993; Martin and Davis, 2001).

Phylogenetic analysis of caprellid and corophioid amphipods (Crustacea) based on the 18S rRNA gene, with special emphasis on the phylogenetic position of Phtisicidae

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