Pale beach hopper

Megalorchestia columbiana

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Family: Talitridae

Megalorchestia is a genus of sand-hoppers in the family Talitridae. The genus was erected by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich von Brandt in 1851 and the type species is Megalorchestia californiana.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 349Canada · 7

Sources and credits

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