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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]
Mysis is a small, transparent, shrimp-like crustacean less than 25 mm (1 in) in length.It has two pairs of relatively long antennae, associated with rounded antennal plates; large, stalked compound eyes; the thorax covered by a coat-like carapace; a muscular, cylindrical abdomen; and a tail fan featuring a telson with a V-shaped terminal cleft.
Triops longicaudatus (commonly called American tadpole shrimp or longtail tadpole shrimp) is a freshwater crustacean of the order Notostraca, resembling a miniature horseshoe crab. It is characterized by an elongated, segmented body, a flattened shield-like brownish carapace covering two thirds of the thorax, and two long filaments on the abdomen.
Caridina spinata is an attractive shrimp species, therefore heavily harvested from the wild for the aquarium trade. Wild collection of this species has been increasing, which is believed to be aiding population decline. [1] Pollution by the human activities such as nickel mining also threatens the habitat of Caridina spinata. [1]
Caridina is a genus of freshwater atyid shrimp. They are widely found in tropical or subtropical water in Asia, Oceania and Africa. They are filter-feeders and omnivorous scavengers. They range from 0.9 to 9.8 mm (C. cantonensis) to 1.2–7.4 mm in carapace length.
The wild-capture production of P. borealis is about ten times that of C. crangon. In 1950, the position was reversed, with the capture of C. crangon about ten times that of P. borealis. [6] In 2010, the global aquaculture of all shrimp and prawn species (3.5 million tonnes) slightly exceeded the global wild capture (3.2 million tonnes). [6]
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The other three superfamilies also live in freshwater (Darwinuloidea is exclusively non-marine). [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Of these three, only Cypridoidea have freshwater species able to swim. [ 37 ] Representatives living in terrestrial habitats are also found in all three freshwater groups, [ 38 ] such as genus Mesocypris which is known from ...