Neotrypaea
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Neotrypaea is a genus
of ghost shrimp
in the family
Callianassidae
, containing the following five species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of ghost shrimp
Thalassinidea
Thalassinidea is an infraorder of decapod crustaceans that live in burrows in muddy bottoms of the world's oceans. In Australian English, the littoral thalassinidean Trypaea australiensis is referred to as the yabby , frequently used as bait for estuarine fishing; elsewhere, however, they are...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Callianassidae
Callianassidae
Callianassidae is a family of ghost shrimp of the order Decapoda. It is divided into 13 subfamilies and 42 genera:Anacallianacinae*Anacalliax de Saint Laurent, 1973Bathycalliacinae*Bathycalliax Sakai & Türkay, 1999Callianassinae...
, containing the following five species:
- Neotrypaea biffari (Holthuis, 1991)
- Neotrypaea californiensisNeotrypaea californiensisNeotrypaea californiensis , the Bay ghost shrimp, is a species of ghost shrimp that lives on the Pacific coast of North America. It is a pale animal which grows to a length of . One claw is bigger than the other, especially in males, and the enlarged claw is thought to have a function in mating...
(Dana, 1854) - Neotrypaea gigas (Dana, 1852)
- Neotrypaea rochei (Bouvier, 1895)
- Neotrypaea uncinata (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)