How to Use amphipod in a Sentence

amphipod

noun
  • No trench was fiber-free, and more than 80 percent of the amphipods contained them.
    — Sarah Gibbens and Laura Parker, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2019
  • But, with retreating sea ice, there is less under-ice algae to feed the amphipods that in turn feed the whales.
    — David Helvarg, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • That has scientists wondering if the loss of sea ice has led to a loss of algae that feed the amphipods.
    — Gene Johnson, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2019
  • Gray whales feed on benthic amphipods crustaceans, which feed on algae grown under sea ice.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Cusk eels like to eat amphipods, white prawn-like crustaceans that populate the trenches in large numbers.
    — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This includes tiny shrimp-like amphipods in the whales’ summer feeding grounds in the Arctic.
    — David Helvarg, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Some amphipods are tiny, but others, known as supergiants, can grow up to 13 inches long.
    — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The amphipods feed on algae that grows on the underside of the ice, so less ice means less food to fuel the whales for their journey.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Within them, researchers spotted squat lobsters, sea urchins, and small crustaceans known as amphipods.
    — Priya Shukla, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Yet those giant amphipods and other creatures with exoskeletons seem to fare better at depths.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Skin-crawling video shows amphipods, also referred to as sand fleas or sea fleas, gnawing away at the steak used to lure it from the water.
    — National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2017
  • The only life Cameron saw at that depth were some tiny amphipods, shrimplike bottom feeders.
    — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 5 Mar. 2016
  • The researches sent small probes to the depths of these trenches to capture the small animals, called amphipods, that live there.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2017
  • High levels of bomb carbon from nuclear testing were found in the tissues of amphipods living in the hadal zone.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • The snailfish diet includes of amphipods, tiny crustaceans which are known to hold microplastics.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2018
  • These predators hunt and capture smaller amphipods in the trench as prey using specialized appendages.
    — Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But some tiny marine animals, such as some hyperiid amphipods, clearly come out ahead.
    — National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2016
  • These amphipods are famous for their bright colors, spines and variety; some live as free-swimming predators and others stay put and feed by filtration.
    — Sean Greene, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • Paraphromina, another clear amphipod, has unique compound eyes, which look like rows of runway lights that face both upward and sideways.
    — National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2016
  • That provides a bonanza for tiny creatures called copepods, amphipods, and zooplankton that feed on sea-ice undersides.
    — National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2019
  • Some amphipods are known to swarm creatures that enter their territory, including human scuba divers.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The animal ended up dying from unknown causes about three months after the researchers collected the amphipods.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 Oct. 2019
  • In those Arctic feeding grounds, gray whales dive to the bottom of shallow basins, suck up sediment filled with crustaceans called amphipods, and then filter out the food from the mud.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • PCBs had been detected in Hirondellea gigas, tiny shrimp-like amphipods scooped up by deep-water trawlers.
    — Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • PCBs, for example, have been detected in high levels within tiny ocean crustaceans called amphipods that had consumed plastics.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Onisimus glacialis, a common amphipod found only in association with Arctic sea ice.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2015
  • Previously unknown crustaceans, including isopods and amphipods, were also found.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There, White joins a biologist to learn about what lives in the mudflats — mostly tiny amphipods known as mudshrimp, essential food for migrating shorebirds.
    — Nancy Lord, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
  • British researchers collected amphipods (shrimplike crustaceans) from six of the world’s deepest ocean trenches and found that eighty per cent of them had microplastic in their digestive tracts.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Cystisoma belong to a suborder of marine crustaceans called hyperiid amphipods, which live in every ocean, from just below the surface to right near the floor.
    — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017

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