''Nototropis swammerdamei'' is an

amphipod Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...

crustacean of the family

Atylidae Atylidae is a family (biology), family of Amphipoda, amphipod crustaceans, containing the following genera: *''Anatylus'' Bulycheva, 1955 *''Kamehatylus'' J. L. Barnard, 1970 *''Austroniphargus'' Monod, 1925 *''Sandro (genus), Sandro'' Karaman & ...

Description

''N. swammerdamei'' is about long, translucent white with some brown areas. Its first two segments are smooth, and the third sometimes has a tooth on the back. Its first pair of legs is small, the second pair is larger, then the next legs are separated by a gap. The third and fourth pairs of legs are small, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh are long.

Distribution

It can be found along the shore and

sublittoral zone The neritic zone (or sublittoral zone) is the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately in depth. From the point of view of marine biology it forms a relatively stable and well-illuminated ...

s near sand and

algae Algae (; singular alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular mic ...

throughout Europe, from the

Arctic Circle The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle. The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at w ...

by Norway to the Mediterranean Sea.

Taxonomic history

The species was first described as ''Amphithoe swammerdamei'' in 1830 by

Henri Milne-Edwards Henri Milne-Edwards (23 October 1800 – 29 July 1885) was an eminent French zoologist. Biography Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and colonel of the militia in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a Frenchw ...

. It was named after

Jan Swammerdam Jan Swammerdam (February 12, 1637 – February 17, 1680) was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—are different forms of the ...

, a Dutch biologist.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10603764 Crustaceans described in 1830 Gammaridea Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards