family

Scuds

Gammaridae

Field notes

Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name.

They have a wide distribution, centered on Eurasia, and are euryhaline as a lineage, inhabiting fresh to marine waters.

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Range

United States

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

Most observed native scuds All

Native to the US, by observations.