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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]
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
C. subterranea creates complex, multi-branched tunnel systems up to 81 cm deep from the lower shore to the shallow sublittoral. Each tunnel complex has several inhalant shafts which terminate on the surface with a funnel -shaped opening in the center of a conical mound of ejected sediment.
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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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.
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