Panboola School Water Bug Survey
This is a School Water Bug Survey guide for Panboola based on records from the Atlas of Living Australia http://alcw.ala.org.au/bdrs-core/alcw/fieldguide/taxa.htm?groupId=271
Freshwater Sandhopper
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. The name amphipoda refers to the different forms of appendages, unlike isopods, where all the thoracic legs are alike. Of the 7,000 species, 5,500 are classified into one suborder, Gammaridea. The remainder are divided into two or three further suborders. Amphipods ...more ↓
Freshwater Shrimp
Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp, is an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. They are found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water.
Freshwater Yabby/Crayfish
Parastacidae is the family of freshwater crayfish found in the southern hemisphere. The family is a classic Gondwana-distributed taxon, with extant members in South America, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, and extinct taxa also in Antarctica.
