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sandhopper

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Noun1.sandhopper - small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleassandhopper - small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper
amphipod - a kind of malacostracan crustacean
genus Orchestia, Orchestia - type genus of the family Orchestiidae
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Dr Richard Thompson, of the University of Plymouth, has studied how plastic degrades in the water and how tiny marine organisms such as barnacles and sandhoppers respond.
The toxic threat from litter blighting our coastline by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
He also finds toads feeding on sandhoppers along the strandline in Northumberland; a solitary bee that lays its eggs in empty snail shells; and Arctic terns, whose chicks have just three months to grow before undertaking their epic voyage to the Antarctic.
Wednesday: What to WATCH by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
These include some migrators--salmon, tuna, some birds--and also bacteria, amphipod sandhoppers, newts, and the American alligator.
Thoroughly modern migrants: moths and butterflies--round-trip tickets ... by Milius, Susan / Science News
 
 
 
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