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largely marine, shrimp -like crustaceans comprising the arthropod order amphipoda. included among the amphipods are the abundant sand-hoppers or beach-fleas, the predaceous ghost shrimp, and the whale ectoparasites cyamus. amphipods are extremely abundant, diverse, and widespread crustaceans, found in
nearly all marine and freshwater habitats (lowry and springhorpe ). they are particularly important in providing benefit to ecosystems in marine food chains , as herbivores, detritivores, micropredators, and scavengers (lowry and springhorpe ). contents description distribution and life references credits...
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