plural noun

• An order of chiefly marine crustaceans with a laterally compressed body and a large number of appendages like legs.

  ‘Neither Amphipoda nor Isopoda is known from the early Paleozoic when the Crustacea are generally represented in the fossil record by the valve-bearing Ostracoda.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Because of their small size, Amphipoda are able to survive in caves.’
  • ‘This Colloquium hosts every aspects of Amphipoda (systematics, genetics, evolution, ecology, physiology, range extensions, etc.), both freshwater and marine.’