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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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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.
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]
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 .
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 ...