Biology:Thor manningi
| Manning grass shrimp | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Superfamily: | Alpheoidea |
| Family: | Thoridae |
| Genus: | Thor |
| Species: | T. manningi
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| Binomial name | |
| Thor manningi Chace, 1972
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Thor manningi is a species of shrimp. The common name for this species is the Manning grass shrimp.[1] On average the life span in this species is 4 to 5 months.[2] The species uses drag powered swimming to move from place to place.[3]
Distribution
Thor manningi has an amphiamerican distribution, found in shallow coastal regions of the Western Atlantic,[4] including off the coast of South Carolina in the United States,[5] and the East Pacific.[6]
Reproduction
Thor manningi is a trioecious species with males, females and protandrous hermaphrodites.[7] Individuals approaching sex change have a mixture of male and female characteristics.[8] In this species 50% of the population are males, 49% protandric hermaphrodites, and 1% are females.[9]
References
- ↑ "ADW: Thor manningi: CLASSIFICATION". https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Thor_manningi/classification/.
- ↑ Schram, Frederick; Klein, Carel von Vaupel; Charmantier-Daures, M.; Forest, J. (2010-12-17) (in en). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea, Volume 9 Part A: Eucarida: Euphausiacea, Amphionidacea, and Decapoda (partim). BRILL. pp. 180. ISBN 978-90-04-16441-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=ve0qM3s-XqkC&q=Thor+manningi&pg=PA548.
- ↑
- ↑ "Thor manningi". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=96919.
- ↑ "Thor manningi". NatureServe. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1286578/Thor_manningi.
- ↑ Rubén Ríos; Alberto Carvacho (January 1982). "Caridean Shrimps of the Gulf of California. I. New Records, with Some Remarks on Amphiamerican Distribution". Pacific Science 36 (4). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29736289_Caridean_Shrimps_of_the_Gulf_of_California_I_New_Records_with_Some_Remarks_on_Amphiamerican_Distribution.
- ↑ Fusco, Giuseppe; Minelli, Alessandro (2019-10-10) (in en). The Biology of Reproduction. Cambridge University Press. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-1-108-49985-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=AKGsDwAAQBAJ&q=trioecy&pg=PA133.
- ↑ Bauer, Raymond T. (2004) (in en). Remarkable Shrimps: Adaptations and Natural History of the Carideans. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 126. ISBN 978-0-8061-3555-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=b8YHIsnod3EC&q=Thor+manningi&pg=PR11.
- ↑ Leonard, Janet L. (2019-05-21) (in en). Transitions Between Sexual Systems: Understanding the Mechanisms of, and Pathways Between, Dioecy, Hermaphroditism and Other Sexual Systems. Springer. pp. 283. ISBN 978-3-319-94139-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=0rWZDwAAQBAJ&q=Thor+manningi&pg=PA291.
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