İpek, Mehmet;Özbek, Murat
Talitridae
Sign in to savethumb|Megalorchestia corniculata
Species
beach-hopper
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderAmphipoda
- FamilyTalitridae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded34,141
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,430
- With media
- 29
- Family
- Talitridae
- Collections
- CINVESTAV-IPN, YPM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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thumb|Megalorchestia corniculata
Talitridae is a family of amphipods. Terrestrial species are often referred to as landhoppers and beach dwellers are called sandhoppers or sand fleas. The name sand flea is misleading, though, because these talitrid amphipods are not siphonapterans (true fleas), do not bite people, and are not limited to sandy beaches.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Talitridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.