Gammarids
size:
around 1 centimeter
color:
transparent to bright green or yellow
food:
microscopic phytoplankton and zooplankton
enemies:
fish, jellyfish, anemones, other crustaceans, almost all carnifores larger than a gammarid
reproduction:
sexual
- Dut: Vlokreeft
- Lat: Marinogammarus spp. / Haustorius arenarius
- Eng: Gammarid
- Ger: Flohkrebs (Sand-Flohkrebs)
- Dan: Tangloppe (amphipod)
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Gammarids
What animal can swim upside-down, backwards or on its side? The gammarid! There are different species of gammarids, depending on the kind of water where they live: marine, brackish and freshwater species. Just like copepods, they are an important source of food for many other animals because there are so many of them. They are true bottom-dwelling animals.
See also
- Beach
- Brackish water region
- Ditches (ecology)
- Freshwater regions
- Sea regions
- Tidal flats and shallows
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