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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]
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.
Callianassa subterranea is a species of burrowing ghost shrimp. ... sandy sediment of its benthic zone habitat. C. subterranea creates complex, ...
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]
Callianassidae is a family of ghost shrimp crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Axiidea, within the order Decapoda. Phylogeny
Ghost shrimp is a name applied to at least three different kinds of crustacean: . Thalassinidea, crustaceans which live in deep burrows in the intertidal zone; Caprellidae, amphipods with slender bodies more commonly known as "skeleton shrimps"
The new species lives in burrows with ghost shrimp, researchers said. Four-eyed creature — with ‘bright red’ body — found burrowed in sand. See new species
Ctenocheloides is a genus of ghost shrimp in the family Ctenochelidae. Its first species, C. attenboroughi, was described in 2010 and named in honour of the British natural history broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. [1] It contains the following species: [2] Ctenocheloides almeidai Anker & Pachelle, 2013 Ctenocheloides attenboroughi Anker, 2010