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Phoxocephalopsidae
Phoxocephalopsidae is a family of crustaceans belonging to the order Amphipoda. Genera: * '' Eophoxocephalopsis'' Thurston, 1989 * '' Phoxocephalopsis'' Schellenberg, 1931 * '' Pseudurothoe'' Ledoyer, 1986 * ''Puelche Puelche or Puelches may refer to: *Puelche people, an indigenous people of Argentina and Chile *Puelche language, spoken by the Puelche people * Puelche (wind), a dry wind of Chile *Puelches, La Pampa Puelches is a village and rural locality (munic ...'' Barnard & Clark, 1982 * '' Urothopsis'' Ledoyer, 1967 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q17711848 Amphipoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crustaceans
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can be treated as a subphylum under the clade Mandibulata. It is now well accepted that the hexapods emerged deep in the Crustacean group, with the completed group referred to as Pancrustacea. Some crustaceans ( Remipedia, Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda) are more closely related to insects and the other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans. The 67,000 described species range in size from '' Stygotantulus stocki'' at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to and a mass of . Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. They are distinguished from other groups of arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphipoda
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 described. They are mostly marine animals, but are found in almost all aquatic environments. Some 1,900 species live in fresh water, and the order also includes the terrestrial sandhoppers such as '' Talitrus saltator''. Etymology and names The name ''Amphipoda'' comes, via New Latin ', from the Greek roots 'on both/all sides' and 'foot'. This contrasts with the related Isopoda, which have a single kind of thoracic leg. Particularly among anglers, amphipods are known as ''freshwater shrimp'', ''scuds'', or ''sideswimmers''. Description Anatomy The body of an amphipod is divided into 13 segments, which can be grouped into a head, a thorax and an abdomen. The head is fused to the thorax, and bears two pairs of antennae and one pair of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puelche (crustacean)
Puelche or Puelches may refer to: * Puelche people, an indigenous people of Argentina and Chile *Puelche language, spoken by the Puelche people *Puelche (wind) A Puelche wind (in Spanish, ''viento puelche'') is a dry foehn-like eastern wind that occurs in south- central Chile. The wind owns its name from the Puelche people who inhabited the eastern slopes of the Andes. Puelche winds are mainly caused by ..., a dry wind of Chile * Puelches, La Pampa, a village in Argentina {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
