Bed-jacket vs gammarid shrimp

Alectryon tomentosus compared with Gammarus salinus

Key Differences

• Bed-jacket is Least Concern while gammarid shrimp is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bed-jacket	gammarid shrimp
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Malacostraca (Crustaceans)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Amphipoda (Amphipoda)
Family	Sapindaceae	Gammaridae
Genus	Alectryon	Gammarus
Species	Alectryon tomentosus	Gammarus salinus

Conservation Status

Bed-jacket

LC — Least Concern

gammarid shrimp

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bed-jacket	gammarid shrimp
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bed-jacket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

gammarid shrimp

Habitat

Typically found in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments.

Range

Distributed across Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Bed-jacket

The Bed-jacket (Alectryon tomentosus) is a species in the genus Alectryon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.