A small crustacean of the seashore which typically lives among seaweed and leaps when disturbed.
沙蚤。亦称SAND FLEA
Orchestia and other genera, order Amphipoda
Also called sand flea
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The high productivity is evident everywhere - huge rubbery masses of kelp washed up on the beaches, attracting swarms of sandhoppers and the birds that feed on them, including the elegant African black oystercatcher.
People standing near the edge of this angular structure look as small as sandhoppers from where we are.
Zonal recovery is a prompt escape towards the sea performed by sandhoppers under stressful environmental conditions.