Gammarus pulex Freshwater shrimp

Gammarus pulex is commonly referred to as Freshwater shrimp. Difficulty in the aquarium: Lett. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

5047 

AphiaID:

0 

Scientific:

Gammarus pulex 

German:

Bachflohkrebse 

English:

Freshwater Shrimp 

Category:

Mat 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridae (Family) > Gammarus (Genus) > pulex (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, 1758) 

Size:

up to 0.08" (0.2 cm) 

Temperature:

32 °F - 60.8 °F (0°C - 16°C) 

Food:

Carrion, Detritus 

Difficulty:

Lett 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Gammarus acherondytes
• Gammarus annulatus
• Gammarus bousfieldi
• Gammarus chevreuxi
• Gammarus crinicornis
• Gammarus daiberi
• Gammarus desperatus
• Gammarus duebeni
• Gammarus fasciatus
• Gammarus finmarchicus
• Gammarus hyalelloides
• Gammarus insensibilis
• Gammarus jenneri
• Gammarus lacustris
• Gammarus lawrencianus
• Gammarus limnaeus
• Gammarus locusta
• Gammarus minus
• Gammarus mucronatus
• 
  Gammarus oceanicus
  Ozeanischer Flohkrebs
• Gammarus palustris
• Gammarus paynei
• Gammarus pecos
• Gammarus pseudolimnaeus
• 
  Gammarus pulex
  Bachflohkrebse
• Gammarus salinus
• Gammarus setosus
• 
  Gammarus tigrinus
  Amphipode
• Gammarus troglophilus
• 
  Gammarus wilkitzkii
  Eis-Flohkrebs
• Gammarus zaddachi
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Gammarus roeselii
  Bachflohkrebs
• 
  Gammarus sp.
  Flohkrebs

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-01-19 21:46:55 

Last edit:

2013-01-19 21:46:55 

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