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Parhyale hawaiensis

Parhyale hawaiensis

Classification

Family
Hyalidae

Parhyale hawaiensis is an amphipod crustacean species that is used in developmental and genetic analyses. It is categorized as an emerging model organism as the main biological techniques necessary for the study of an organism have been established. Habitat Parhyale hawaiensis is a detritovore that has a circumtropical, worldwide, intertidal, and shallow-water marine distribution, and it may occur as a species complex.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1