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Palaemon affinis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Palaemon affinis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Palaemon affinis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Palaemonidae
Genus: Palaemon
Species: P. affinis
Binomial name
Palaemon affinis
H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Palaemon affinis, or New Zealand glass shrimp, is a shrimp of the family Palaemonidae, endemic to New Zealand. It is extremely common, being found subtidally, and in intertidal rock pools, throughout New Zealand. Its length is up to 75 mm.

The New Zealand glass shrimp uses its transparency as camouflage, being very difficult to see when stationary. Although mainly transparent, there are fine black or brown lines, and there is a large black spot ringed with orange on each side at the base of the last limbs, and the walking legs are banded with orange and black above each joint. It feeds by night, moving up the shore with the flood tide and is often stranded in pools by the ebb. In fact, it is difficult to find a rock pool that doesn't contain these shrimp. Its food is decaying plants and animals, diatoms, green Enteromorpha seaweed, and living animals such as mysid shrimps , amphipods and recently settled barnacles.

The New Zealand glass shrimp can walk, swim gracefully by flapping the small limbs of the abdomen, or shoot away suddenly by a quick bending of its tail. It can move both forwards and backwards with ease.

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