How to Use amphipod in a Sentence

amphipod

noun
  • No trench was fiber-free, and more than 80 percent of the amphipods contained them.
    Sarah Gibbens and Laura Parker, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2019
  • That has scientists wondering if the loss of sea ice has led to a loss of algae that feed the amphipods.
    Gene Johnson, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2019
  • The researches sent small probes to the depths of these trenches to capture the small animals, called amphipods, that live there.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Skin-crawling video shows amphipods, also referred to as sand fleas or sea fleas, gnawing away at the steak used to lure it from the water.
    National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Cusk eels like to eat amphipods, white prawn-like crustaceans that populate the trenches in large numbers.
    Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Some amphipods are tiny, but others, known as supergiants, can grow up to 13 inches long.
    Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
  • High levels of bomb carbon from nuclear testing were found in the tissues of amphipods living in the hadal zone.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • The only life Cameron saw at that depth were some tiny amphipods, shrimplike bottom feeders.
    Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 5 Mar. 2016
  • The snailfish diet includes of amphipods, tiny crustaceans which are known to hold microplastics.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Yet those giant amphipods and other creatures with exoskeletons seem to fare better at depths.
    Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2019
  • These amphipods are famous for their bright colors, spines and variety; some live as free-swimming predators and others stay put and feed by filtration.
    Sean Greene, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • PCBs had been detected in Hirondellea gigas, tiny shrimp-like amphipods scooped up by deep-water trawlers.
    Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Paraphromina, another clear amphipod, has unique compound eyes, which look like rows of runway lights that face both upward and sideways.
    National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2016
  • The animal ended up dying from unknown causes about three months after the researchers collected the amphipods.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 Oct. 2019
  • There, White joins a biologist to learn about what lives in the mudflats — mostly tiny amphipods known as mudshrimp, essential food for migrating shorebirds.
    Nancy Lord, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
  • That provides a bonanza for tiny creatures called copepods, amphipods, and zooplankton that feed on sea-ice undersides.
    National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2019
  • An amphipod is measured, in millimeters, in the field lab just after it was collected beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf.
    Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2015
  • British researchers collected amphipods (shrimplike crustaceans) from six of the world’s deepest ocean trenches and found that eighty per cent of them had microplastic in their digestive tracts.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • PCBs, for example, have been detected in high levels within tiny ocean crustaceans called amphipods that had consumed plastics.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Most were spineless marine critters: sea stars, sea slugs, oysters, barnacles, mussels, amphipods, bryozoans and isopods.
    Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • But some tiny marine animals, such as some hyperiid amphipods, clearly come out ahead.
    National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2016
  • Cystisoma belong to a suborder of marine crustaceans called hyperiid amphipods, which live in every ocean, from just below the surface to right near the floor.
    Emily Underwood, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Earlier this year, a study sampled amphipods in six deep-sea trenches, including the Mariana, and found all were ingesting microplastics.
    Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 13 May 2019
  • Some amphipods are known to swarm creatures that enter their territory, including human scuba divers.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Onisimus glacialis, a common amphipod found only in association with Arctic sea ice.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2015
  • Other studies have concluded that sand replenishment can be harmful to intertidal invertebrates, such as worms, clams, amphipods (sandhoppers) and crabs.
    Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018

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