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The term mud shrimp is used for a number of different mud-dwelling crustaceans: The former infraorder Thalassinidea, which included genera such as Callianassa, Pestarella and Upogebia. Infraorder Axiidea, comprising part of the former infraorder Thalassinidea; Infraorder Gebiidea, comprising part of the former infraorder Thalassinidea
The shrimp measure up to 11 cm long in adulthood. Its snout is hairy and includes 3 teeth. They eat detritus which they bring into their burrow using their pleopods. Upogebia pugettensis is the host of many parasites: Pseudopythina rugifera, Phyllodurus abdominalis, and Orthione griffenis. [1] [2] [3]
This species is known by such generic common names as "mud shrimp" and "ghost shrimp". [2] Description. Callianassa subterranea has an elongated body, ...
Callianassa is a genus of mud shrimps, in the family Callianassidae. Three of the species in this genus (C. candida, C. tyrrhena and C. whitei) have been split off into a new genus, Pestarella, [3] while others such as Callianassa filholi have been moved to Biffarius. [4] The genus is named after the Nereid of the Greco-Roman mythology.
They are colloquially known as mud shrimp, ghost shrimp, or burrowing shrimp; [3] however, these decapods are only distantly related to true shrimp. Axiidea and Gebiidea are divergent infraorders of the former infraorder Thalassinidea. These infraorders have converged ecologically and morphologically as burrowing forms. [3]
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Upogebia is a genus of mud shrimp, in the family Upogebiidae, containing the following species: [1] Upogebia acanthops Williams, 1986; Upogebia acanthura (Coêlho, 1973)