Definition of Order Amphipoda

1. Noun. Small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Amphipoda

order
order-Chenopodiales
order-in-council
order Acarina
order Accipitriformes
order Actinaria
order Actiniaria
order Actinomycetales
order Actinomyxidia
order Aepyorniformes
order Agaricales
order Alcyonaria
order Alismales
order Amoebida
order Amoebina
order Amphipoda (current term)
order Anacanthini
order Anaspida
order Andreaeales
order Anguilliformes
order Anoplura
order Anostraca
order Anseriformes
order Anthocerotales
order Anura
order Aphyllophorales
order Aplacophora
order Apodes
order Apodiformes
order Apterygiformes

Literary usage of Order Amphipoda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the by Charles Spence Bate (1862)
"Order AMPHIPODA. THE animals that constitute this Order of Crustacea exhibit th« characters of the Class perhaps more perfectly typical than can be found in ..."

2. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the by Charles Spence Bate (1862)
"Order AMPHIPODA. THE animals that constitute this Order of Crustacea exhibit the characters of the Class perhaps more perfectly typical than can be found in ..."

3. North American Index Fossils by Amadeus William Grabau, Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1910)
"Order AMPHIPODA Latreille. Body laterally compressed. Abdomen elongate. The three anterior feet for swimming, the rest directed posteriorly and used for ..."

4. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"... members,—we have first to notice the Order AMPHIPODA, in which the abdomen is well developed, but the respiratory organs are connected with Fro. 589. ..."

5. Zoology: Being a Sketch of the Classification, Structure, Distribution, and by William Benjamin Carpenter (1845)
"... by the union of the respiratory organs with the locomotive members,—we have to first notice the Order AMPHIPODA, in which the abdomen is well developed, ..."

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