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Welcome to Order Amphipoda!

Amphipoda - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda

(From Wikipedia) Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies.

FACT: Amphipods use specialized glands on their antennae to control the level of salts in their body!

Currently discovered: 1/6 Suborders, 0/4 Families

Suborder

  1. Senticaudata