Difference between Water Flea and Amphiuma

WATER FLEA vs AMPHIUMA: NOUN

Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Cladocera, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
One of numerous small or minute crustaceans which skip about in the water like fleas, as Daphnia pulex; any branchiopod. See Daphniidæ, Cladocera, Cyclops.
Any of various other small aquatic crustaceans, such as some copepods, that swim with a similar motion.
Any of various small chiefly freshwater branchiopod crustaceans of the order Cladocera, having a bivalve carapace and typically swimming with jerking flealike motions, and including the daphnias.
Minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae

Any of the genus Amphiuma of aquatic salamanders.
A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.
A genus of tailed amphibians with both gills and lungs, and therefore capable of breathing in both air and water, typical of the family Amphiumidæ.
Any of several long slender salamanders of the genus Amphiuma of the southeast United States that in their adult stage have two pairs of very small nonfunctioning legs and breathe with lungs although they are aquatic.
Aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States

Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.

Sea animal, Congo snake, Bell animalcule, Water bug, Malacostracan crustacean, Whale louse, Backswimmer, Beach flea, Water scorpion, Lernean, Phyllopod, Branchiopod crustacean, Branchiopod, Cyclops, Daphnia

Discina, Boat bug, Amphibian, Giant salamander, Menobranch, Tongueless frog, Ambystomid, Salamandroid, Salamandriform, Salamander, Fire salamander, Toed, Blind eel, Congo snake, Congo eel

Entoproct, Sea animal, Congo snake, Bell animalcule, Water bug, Malacostracan crustacean, Whale louse, Backswimmer, Beach flea, Water scorpion, Lernean, Phyllopod, Branchiopod crustacean, Branchiopod, Daphnia

Branchiopod crustacean, Labyrinthodontia, Discina, Boat bug, Amphibian, Giant salamander, Menobranch, Tongueless frog, Ambystomid, Salamandroid, Salamandriform, Salamander, Fire salamander, Toed, Congo snake

Try blackworms, grindal worms, vinegar eels or the fully aquatic water flea.
The water flea Daphnia pulex alternates between sexual and parthenogenetic reproduction.

The Menopoma, Siren, Amphiuma, Axolotl, and Menobranchus, are Batrachians which inhabit the rivers and lakes of the United States and Mexico.