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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