Lawn Shrimp at Murrah, NSW
Identification history
| Arcitalitridae (Family) | 30 Aug 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Amphipod (order Amphipoda, family Talitridae) | 4 Apr 2025 | KorinneM | ||
| Unverified | 16 Nov 2019 | FionaG |
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Soil Flea?
1 comment
DiBickers
wrote:
3 Apr 2025
@MichaelMulvaney this looks like a Terrestrial Amphipod to me aka Lawn Shrimp. Family Arcitalitridae, possibly in Genus Arcitalitrus. Are you able to Suggest and/or Verify it to that taxon (as I don’t have access to those categories). Thanks so much😊
Location information
- Coordinates 149.906082-36.468127
- Places Murrah, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 19 Jan 2016 06:14 PM Recorded on
- FionaG Recorded by
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Species information
- Arcitalitridae (Family) Scientific name
- Lawn Shrimp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 112.14m Recorded at altitude
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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