let us now have a look at the stranger versions of SHRIMP:

Home aquaria

Lysmata debelius, a popular aquarium shrimp
Several types of shrimp are kept in home aquaria. Some are purely ornamental, while others are useful in controlling algae and removing debris.[16] Freshwater shrimp commonly available for aquaria include the Bamboo shrimp, Japanese marsh shrimp (Caridina multidentata, also called "Amano shrimp," as their use in aquaria was pioneered by Takashi Amano), cherry shrimp (Neocaridina heteropoda), and ghost or glass shrimp (Palaemonetes spp.). Popular saltwater shrimp include the cleaner shrimp Lysmata amboinensis, the fire shrimp (Lysmata debelius) and the harlequin shrimp (Hymenocera picta).

The ghost/glass shrimp is now interesting me...although TODDY would have probably been the HARLEQUIN SHRIMP:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaemonetes

If you wanted to be really, really nasty to somebody - you would tell them to project that, wouldn't you?

The genus Palaemonetes includes a geographically diverse group of fresh and brackish-water shrimp.

[edit] Selected species
Palaemonetes antrorum J. E. Benedict, 1896 – Balcones cave shrimp, Texas cave shrimp
Palaemonetes cummingi Chace, 1954 – Squirrel Chimney cave shrimp
Palaemonetes paludosus (Gibbes, 1850) – eastern grass shrimp, riverine grass shrimp, Florida ghost shrimp, Guinea floating shrimp, ivory shrimp, Palenque floating shrimp, Paraguay ghost shrimp
Palaemonetes vulgaris (Say, 1818) – common shore shrimp, common prawn, common American prawn, grass shrimp, common grass shrimp, marsh shrimp, marsh grass shrimp

[edit] References

1.^ Ned E. Strenth (1976). "A review of the systematics and zoogeography of the freshwater species of Palaemonetes Heller of North America (Crustacea, Decapoda)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 228: 1–27.


ommon ditch shrimp Palaemonetes varians

Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Arthropoda

Subphylum:

Crustacea

Class:

Malacostraca

Order:

Decapoda

Infraorder:

Caridea

Family:

Palaemonidae

Genus:

Palaemonetes
Heller, 1869

Type species

Palaemonetes varians
Leach, 1814 [1]