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Gammaridae

İpek, Mehmet;Özbek, Murat

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Gammaridae

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Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.

Species

gammaridés

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassMalacostraca
  4. OrderAmphipoda
  5. FamilyGammaridae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded329,635

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Gammaridae
taxon name
Gammaridae
taxon common name
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Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.

They have a wide distribution, centered on Eurasia, and are euryhaline as a lineage, inhabiting fresh to marine waters.

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