Eusirus laticarpus Amphipod

Eusirus laticarpus is commonly referred to as Amphipod. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Jan van Franeker, Wageningen Marine Research

Courtesy of the author Jan van Franeker, Wageningen Marine Research

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AphiaID:: 237742

Scientific:: Eusirus laticarpus
German:: Flohkrebs
English:: Amphipod

Category:: Amphipods

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Amphipoda (Order) > Eusiridae (Family) > Eusirus (Genus) > laticarpus (Species)
Initial determination:: Chevreux, 1906

Occurrence:: Zirkumpolar, Antarctica, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Shetlands Island
Sea depth:: 5 - 300 Meter
Size:: 0" - 0.39" (0,6cm - 1,9cm)
Temperature:: 0,5 °F - 35.6 °F (0,5°C - 2°C)
Food:: Algae (Algivore), Bacteria (Bacterioplankton), Detritus, Phytoplankton
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Eusirus antarcticus
Eusirus columbianus
Eusirus cuspidatus
Eusirus holmi
Eusirus leptocarpus
Eusirus longipes
Eusirus microps
Eusirus perdentatus
Eusirus propinquus

More related species in this lexicon:

Eusirus laticarpus
Flohkrebs

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2017-11-20 19:07:51
Last edit:: 2025-02-26 19:58:08

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Chevreux, 1906

Very special thanks for the first photo of the arctic amphipod Eusirus laticarpus to Dr. Jan Andries van Franeker, Wageningen Marine Research, Netherlands!
Eusirus laticarpus is common in the cold antarctic waters and is an important part of the marine food chain, like krill and copepods too, special for whales and small fishes.
Eusirus laticarpus possesses valuable unsaturated fatty acids such as Omega 3 and also Omega 6 fatty acid.

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Multicrustacea (Superclass) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Eusiroidea (Superfamily) > Eusiridae (Family) > Eusirus (Genus) > Eusirus laticarpus (Species)

External links

Meereisportal (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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