Crassicorophium crassicorne
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Crassicorophium crassicorne is a species of amphipod
crustacean
. It lives in shallow subtidal muddy sand and may grow up to 5 millimetre (0.196850393700787 in) long. C. crassicorne occurs on American and European coasts from Norway to the Black Sea.
Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. The name amphipoda means "different-footed", and refers to the different forms of appendages, unlike isopods, where all the legs are alike. Of the 7,000 species, 5,500 are classified...
crustacean
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
. It lives in shallow subtidal muddy sand and may grow up to 5 millimetre (0.196850393700787 in) long. C. crassicorne occurs on American and European coasts from Norway to the Black Sea.