Britorchestia brito

Britorchestia brito

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Family: Talitridae

There are 1,774 species of crustaceans recorded in Ireland. Crustaceans are arthropods of the subphylum Crustacea. Most are aquatic, such as shrimp, barnacles, lobsters, crayfish, krill, but some are also adapted for land living, such as woodlice and crabs.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Afonso Nóbrega, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionList of crustaceans of Ireland, Wikipedia contributors

Britorchestia brito

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