''Urothoe elegans'' is a species of very small marine
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 ...
crustaceans in the
family Urothoidae
Urothoidae is a family of small marine amphipod crustaceans. Members of the family are found worldwide and are mainly detritivores and interface grazers, though some are also facultative filter feeder
Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspensi ...
. It was first described from Plymouth.
References
* Effects de la temperature sur les rythmes d'emergence des peracarides fouisseurs, Urothoe elegans (amphipode) et Eurydice inermis (isopode). C Macquart‐Moulin - Marine & Freshwater Behaviour & Phy, 1980
External links
''Urothoe elegans''at WoRMS
Gammaridea
Crustaceans described in 1857
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