Sand fleas

Code OP039999

The antennules are longer than the antennae; the accessory flagellum of the antennules is small and 1-segmented. The three uropods are approximately equal in length. The inner and outer rami of the third uropod are approximately equal. Urosomites 2 and 3 (abdominal segments 5-6) are separate, not fused into a single segment (contrast Paracalliopiidae).

An unnamed species attributable to Paraleptamphopus has been reported from Tasmania, and two species of Pseudomoera are quite widespread in Victoria and NSW. In the former genus the telson is entire, in the latter it is cleft.

References:

Bradbury, J. H., and W. D. Williams. (1999) Key to and checklist of the inland aquatic amphipods of Australia . Technical reports of the Australian Museum, number 14.

Horwitz, P., Knott, B. and Williams, W.D. (1995) A Preliminary Key to the Malacostracan Families (Crustacea) found in Australian Inland Waters . Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology Identification Guide No. 4., Albury, NSW.

Williams, W. D. (1980) Australian Freshwater Life . Macmillan.