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  2. Neotrypaea californiensis - Wikipedia

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    Neotrypaea californiensis (formerly Callianassa californiensis), the Bay ghost shrimp, is a species of ghost shrimp that lives on the Pacific coast of North America. It is a pale animal which grows to a length of 11.5 cm (4.5 in). One claw is bigger than the other, especially in males, and the enlarged claw is thought to have a function in mating.

  3. Feeder shrimp - Wikipedia

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    Feeder shrimp, ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, grass shrimp, river shrimp or feeder prawns are generic names applied to inexpensive small, typically with a length of 1 to 3 cm (0.39 to 1.18 in), semi-transparent crustaceans commonly sold and fed as live prey to larger more aggressive fishes kept in aquariums.

  4. Palaemon paludosus - Wikipedia

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    Palaemonetes paludosus, commonly known as ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, and eastern grass shrimp, [2] [3] is a species of freshwater shrimp from the southeastern United States. [4] They can be considered a keystone species based on the services they provide to their habitat. [2] They are also popular in the domestic aquarium business. [5]

  5. Beaufort’s shrimping industry on the brink. Local boats sit ...

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    But Reaves and SSA say many shrimp boats across the southeast Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regions have been tied up for a couple of months because of the poor prices. A shrimp trawler at a dock on ...

  6. Crangon franciscorum - Wikipedia

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    Crangon franciscorum is a species of shrimp in the family Crangonidae which is endemic to the brackish estuaries of California, [1] and found from Puget Sound in the north to San Diego, California in the south. [2] The species is especially abundant in San Francisco Bay, despite population fluctuations due to environmental stresses.

  7. Syncaris pacifica - Wikipedia

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    This decapod is commonly known as California freshwater shrimp, and is the only extant decapod shrimp in California that occurs in non-saline waters (its congener Syncaris pasadenae from the basin of the Los Angeles River is extinct). [6] [7] S. pacifica is one of only four members of the family Atyidae in North America. [7]

  8. Clausidium vancouverense - Wikipedia

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    Clausidium vancouverense, the red copepod, is a symbiont of the ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis. [1] It is one of six species in the genus Clausidium and is found with its host in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California .

  9. Callichirus major - Wikipedia

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    Callichirus major sensu lato is a monophyletic species complex of ghost shrimp in the infraorder Axiidea, found in flat sandy beaches across the Pan-American coastline. Originally described as a single species, genetic studies eventually classified it as at least four almost morphologically indistinguishable species, one of which was given the ...