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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, ...
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]
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.
Upogebia is a genus of mud shrimp, in the family Upogebiidae, containing the following species: [1] Upogebia acanthops Williams, 1986 Upogebia acanthura (Coêlho, 1973)
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Thalassinidea is the former infraorder classification of decapod crustaceans that live in burrows in muddy bottoms of the world's oceans.In Australian English, the littoral thalassinidean Trypaea australiensis is referred to as the yabby [1] (a term which also refers to freshwater crayfish of the genus Cherax), frequently used as bait for estuarine fishing; elsewhere, however, they are poorly ...