Americorchestia
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| Americorchestia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Family: | Talitridae |
| Genus: | Americorchestia Bousfield, 1991 |
Americorchestia is a genus of beach hoppers in the family Talitridae. There are about five described species in Americorchestia.[1][2][3]
These five species belong to the genus Americorchestia:
- Americorchestia barbarae Bousfield, 1991
- Americorchestia heardi Bousfield, 1991
- Americorchestia longicornis (Say, 1818) (common Atlantic sandhopper)
- Americorchestia megalophthalma (Bate, 1862) (northern big-eyed sandhopper)
- Americorchestia salomani Bousfield, 1991
