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Amphipoda

"Amphipoda" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An order of mostly marine CRUSTACEA containing more than 5500 species in over 100 families. Like ISOPODA, the other large order in the superorder Peracarida, members are shrimp-like in appearance, have sessile compound eyes, and no carapace. But unlike Isopoda, they possess thoracic gills and their bodies are laterally compressed.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Amphipoda" by people in this website by year, and whether "Amphipoda" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2009
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