Crustacean with many legs, a hard exoskeleton, and a body compressed from side to side; eyes of amphipods not on stalks (unlike shrimp); invertebrate animal
Salt water, fresh-water lakes and ponds
Detritus and small invertebrates
Fish, water birds, whales, other aquatic predators
Beach amphipods, sometimes called sand fleas, are only 0.75 inches (2 cm) long, but they can leap 1.1 yards (1 m); that is farther than any organism of their size.
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