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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Decapods, Isopods, and Allies
  6. Amphipods and Isopods

superorder

Amphipods and Isopods

Peracarida

Includes
281 native 49 introduced 35 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Isopods 149 native
  • Amphipods 128 native
  • Opossum Shrimps 4 native
  • Tanaids
  • Lophogastridans
  • Hooded Shrimp
  • Ingolfiellida

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native amphipods and isopods All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Western Sea Slater Ligia occidentalis 6,018 observations
  • Sleepy Seaslater Ligia pallasii 2,633 observations
  • Eelgrass Isopod Pentidotea resecata 1,340 observations
  • Lacustrine Scud Gammarus lacustris 1,107 observations
  • Gammarus fasciatus 1,000 observations
  • Florida Fast Woodlouse Atlantoscia floridana 985 observations
  • Western Rockslater Ligidium gracile 812 observations
  • Oak Woodlouse Porcellionides virgatus 605 observations
  • Harford's Isopod Cirolana harfordi 589 observations
  • Blunt-tailed Isopod Idotea urotoma 560 observations
  • Commando Isopod Alloniscus perconvexus 559 observations
  • Eastern Rockslater Ligidium elrodii 310 observations
  • Lirceus richardsonae 292 observations
  • Broad Rockslater Ligidium latum 228 observations
  • Central American Seaslater Ligia baudiniana 185 observations
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