Kingdom Animalia Class Malacostraca Family Atylidae Genus Nototropis Order Amphipoda | Subphylum Crustacea Suborder Gammaridea Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
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Similar Amphipoda, Leucothoe incisa, Abludomelita obtusata, Microprotopus maculatus, Bathyporeia elegans | ||
Nototropis falcatus is a species of amphipod crustacean. It is whitish in colour, with brown patches, and grows to a total length of around 7 millimetres (0.28 in). It lives in fine sand at depths of 10–50 metres (33–164 ft), from northern Norway to the west coast of Ireland, including the North Sea, and as far south as the southern Bay of Biscay.
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