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Talitrus saltator, the Glossary

Talitrus saltator, a species of sand hopper, is a common amphipod crustacean of sandy coasts around Europe.^[1]

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Crustaceans described in 1808
Crustaceans of Europe
Taxa named by George Montagu (naturalist)

Abdomen

The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.

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Amphipoda

Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies.

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Anatomical terms of motion

Motion, the process of movement, is described using specific anatomical terms.

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.

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ARKive was a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it did by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atmospheric temperature

Atmospheric temperature is a measure of temperature at different levels of the Earth's atmosphere.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Behavior

Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Chapman & Hall

Chapman & Hall is an imprint owned by CRC Press, originally founded as a British publishing house in London in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman and William Hall.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Decomposition

Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts.

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Desiccation

Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.

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Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.

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Eye

An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information.

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George Montagu (naturalist)

George Montagu (1753 – 20 June 1815) was an English army officer and naturalist.

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High water mark

A high water mark is a point that represents the maximum rise of a body of water over land.

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Humidity

Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.

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Isopoda

Isopoda is an order of crustaceans.

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MarBEF Data System

MarBEF Data System (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning) was a project of the European Union's Network of Excellence which served as a platform to integrate and disseminate knowledge and expertise on marine biodiversity, with informative links to researchers, industry, stakeholders and the general public.

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Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) is a learned society with a scientific laboratory that undertakes research in marine biology.

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Marine Life Information Network

The Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) is an information system for marine biodiversity for Great Britain and Ireland.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Offspring

In biology, offspring are the young creation of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms.

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Photoperiodism

Photoperiod is the change of day length around the seasons.

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Scientific method

The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.

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Sea surface temperature

Sea surface temperature (or ocean surface temperature) is the temperature of ocean water close to the surface.

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Seaweed

Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

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Sensory cue

In perceptual psychology, a sensory cue is a statistic or signal that can be extracted from the sensory input by a perceiver, that indicates the state of some property of the world that the perceiver is interested in perceiving.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Talitridae

Talitridae is a family of amphipods. Talitrus saltator and Talitridae are Gammaridea.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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University of South Florida

The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota.

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Wader

A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talitrus_saltator

Also known as Talitrus locusta, Talitrus locustra.

Talitrus saltator, the Glossary

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See also

Crustaceans described in 1808

Crustaceans of Europe

Taxa named by George Montagu (naturalist)

References