Gammarus pulex ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Vader, Wim & Tandberg, Anne Helene Solberg, 2019, Gammarid amphipods (Crustacea) in Norway, with a key to the species, Fauna norvegica 39, pp. 12-25 : 20

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https://doi.org/10.5324/fn.v39i0.2873

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17095121

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scientific name

Gammarus pulex ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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11. Gammarus pulex ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Synonyms: Rivulogammarus pulex auct.; Gammarus pulex pulex auct.

Description and illustrations: Schellenberg 1942, pp 24- 26, figs 6b, 7, 8 (as G. p. pulex ); Pinkster 1970, pp 181, 183, 185, figs 1 p. 179, figs 1-4.

Ecology and habitat: Character species of rivers with not too strong currents, but it can also live in stagnant ditches and

pools, and even in oligohaline brackish water.

Distribution: The Scandinavian distribution has been mapped by Segerstråle (1954). Gammarus pulex has in Sweden been found close to the border of Østfold in SE Norway, but as yet there are no Norwegian records.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Gammaridae

Genus

Gammarus

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