Usage of "sand hopper"

Small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches.

Synonyms

Examples for "beach flea"

Maybe she could glue shells to the tiles and sell them at the beach flea market. 
 Happiness key 

Kings Beach Flea Market, Port Elizabeth Friendly City, friendly market. 
 The South African 

It was really cool the way it actually turns stones over, looking for sandhoppers and -what are they called? 
 The Irish Times 

That's like a sand flea or something, right . 
 The incumbent 

What a family of sand fleas I come from! 
 Number9Dream 

I was wondering about desert fauna and the relative frequency of sand fleas only yesterday. 
 Imprudence 

Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move. 
 Rebel island 

There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas. 
 The old man and the sea 

Usage of sand hopper in English

'What coaxed Aemilia Fausta away from the sand hoppers?' 
 Shadows in Bronze 

Meanings of sand hopper in English