It's a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

This video frame grab image provided by NASA, taken in Dec. 2009, shows a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is related to a shrimp, where a NASA team lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet and a curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then even parked itself on the cable attached to the camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

A Lyssianasid amphipod, a shrimp-like creature can be seen swimming in this video.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unexpected Life Found Under Antarctic Ice (Video) | Universe Today] Reference

A new species of amphipod (a small crustacean) may have been discovered in a cave pool in Summit County, Ohio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

Toxic effects of unionized ammonia on survival and feeding activity of the freshwater amphipod Eulimnogammarus toletanus (Gammaridae, Crustacea).    From Wordnik.com.  [Inorganic nitrogen pollution in aquatic ecosystems~ causes and consequences] Reference

Three new genera and 12 new species of terrestrial isopod have been recorded and recently anew species of talitrid amphipod from the top of Mount Gower was described.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Howe Island Group, Australia] Reference

We have analysed length data for 1,853 species of benthic amphipod crustaceans from 12 sites worldwide, from polar to tropical and marine continental shelf to freshwater environments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhapsodizing further on insects] Reference

When I was at sea in 2003 in the east-central Pacific we picked up a floating coconut that harboured a polychaete worm, 2 different species of amphipod, a crab, barnacle, clam, and a snail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

These include the isopod Saduria entomon, the amphipod Monoporeia affinis, the Baltic mussel Macoma bathica, a few semi-pelagic opossum shrimp species (Mysidae) and the common sea snail Liparis liparis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden] Reference

But what is the economic use for the Peck's cave amphipod?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1] Reference

G. wilkitzkii constitutes > 90% of the amphipod biomass at times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Lyssianasid amphipod, found 600 feet down and 12.5 miles from open water.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrekMovie.com] Reference

This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the Ross.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Not everyone is a fan of Alice Waters, the champion of organic and locally grown foods] Reference

Officials at a lab in Virginia have officially tagged the shrimplike amphipod as a.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The one that discovered the monster amphipod cataloged a total of one thousand species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

Further south, in the waters of Antarctica, researchers discovered a monstrous amphipod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

+ Scores of tiny amphipod crustaceans - insects of the marine world - of which an estimated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] Reference

Life under Arctic sea ice - reproduction strategies of two sympagic (ice-associated) amphipod species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

The total number of instars (developmental stages) undergone by most amphipod species is poorly known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Ice amphipod distribution relative to ice density and under-ice topography in the northern Barents Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Up to 60 per cent of tiny amphipod crustaceans, the insects of the marine world, had not been described before.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) and thickbilled murres (Uria lomvia) feed on the amphipod Gammarus wilkitzkii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

While some microbes can make their own food out of chemicals in the ocean, complex life like the amphipod can't, Kim said.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Not everyone is a fan of Alice Waters, the champion of organic and locally grown foods] Reference

Ampelisca mississippiana, this cold-water loving amphipod reaches ten centimeters in length ands is one of the largest in Antarctica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

+ A rarely sampled amphipod of the family Maxillipiidae, featuring a bizarre whiplike back leg about three times the size of its body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] Reference

Four hundred and sixty meters below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have discovered a new species of amphipod-a shrimp-like crustacean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

Four hundred and sixty meters below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have discovered a new species of amphipod -- a shrimp-like crustacean.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Scientists believe this small crustacean -- about a third-of-an-inch long -- found in several caves in Summit County may be an undiscovered species of shrimplike amphipod.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

On one our dives, we found a previously undescribed species of amphipod - a great find as these tiny creatures provide a crucial link in the entire Arctic Ocean food chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

For a time, it was considered a joke to give a large name to a small animal, and this resulted in several amphipod genera such as Cancell-oido-kyto-dermo-gammarus, but these were not allowed to stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference

They also found a rarely sampled amphipod called Maxillipiidae (an order of shrimps), which include sand hoppers and water lice, featuring a bizarre whip-like back leg about three times the size of its body.    From Wordnik.com.  [India eNews] Reference

Weston first began looking at pyrethroid levels in streams bordering farm fields in 2004, and reported levels in some creek sediments high enough to kill the shrimp-like amphipod, an organism used by the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

(02 / 26 / 2007) An expedition to an area of seabed recently exposed by melting ice in Antarctica has discovered several previously unknown species of marine life, including deep sea lilies, gelatinous sea squirts, glass sponges, amphipod crustaceans, and orange starfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

The eyes of a deep-sea amphipod crustacean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Labels: amphipod, arthropoda, intertidal zone, invertebrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference