''Stygobromus parvus'', commonly called the minute cave amphipod,
[ is a troglomorphic species of ]amphipod
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...
in family Crangonyctidae. It is endemic to West Virginia[ in the United States.
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References
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Cave crustaceans
Crustaceans described in 1969
parvus
Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand (8 September 1867 – 12 December 1924) and sometimes called Helphand in the literature on the Russian Revolution, was a Marxist theoretician, publicist, and controversial activist in the ...
Endemic fauna of West Virginia
Endemic crustaceans of the United States
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