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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]
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.
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
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 capensis, or Cape mud shrimp, is a mud shrimp of the family Upogebiidae. [1] [2] [3] It is endemic to the Atlantic and Indian Ocean coasts of southern Africa and occurs from Namibia (Luderitz [3]) to Mozambique. [2] Upogebia capensis lives in a permanent burrow under stones on the open coast, but never in estuaries.
Three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp” are stirring in the Nevada desert after flooding upended the Burning Man festival.. Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying ...
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]
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.