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Gammarus obruki

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Order
  
Amphipoda

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Class
  
Malacostraca

Family
  
Gammaridae

Similar
  
Gammaridae, Gammarus pulex, Gammarus

Gammarus obruki is a species of freshwater amphipod, collected from İnderesi Cave, Bartın Province, Turkey. This species belongs to the Gammarus pulex-group. The most discriminant characters of this species are the presence of prolonged extremities, including a very long antennae, up to 52 segmented flagella, a densely setose fifth peduncle, l flagellar segments of antenna, and a fourth peduncle segment that has no long setae.

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Gammarus obruki Wikipedia