Biology:Trypaea

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Short description: Genus of crustaceans

Trypaea australiensis
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Trypaea australiensis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Callianassidae
Subfamily: Callianassinae
Genus: Trypaea
Dana, 1852
Species:
T. australiensis
Binomial name
Trypaea australiensis
Dana, 1852

Trypaea australiensis, known as the (marine) yabby or ghost nipper in Australia, or as the one-arm bandit due to their occasional abnormally large arm,[1] and as the Australian ghost shrimp elsewhere,[2] is a common species of mud shrimp in south-eastern Australia,[2] and may be the only extant species in the genus Trypaea.[3][4] T. australiensis is a popular bait used live or frozen by Australians targeting a range of species.[5] It grows to a length of 6 centimetres (2.4 in) and lives in burrows in mudflats or sandbanks, especially in or near estuaries.[6]

Species

One extant and two extinct species belong to the genus Trypaea:[7]

  • Trypaea australiensis Dana, 1852 (Australian ghost shrimp) (Indo-West Pacific and Australia)
  • Trypaea inornata (Nagao & Huzioka, 1938)
  • Trypaea mizunamiensis Karasawa, 1993 (temperate Asia)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q18092136 entry