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Freshwater Shrimp
Freshwater shrimp are any shrimp which live in fresh water. This includes: *Any Caridea (shrimp) which live in fresh water, especially the family Atyidae *Species in the genus ''Macrobrachium'' :*'' Macrobrachium ohione'', the Ohio River shrimp :*''Macrobrachium carcinus'', sometimes called the American giant freshwater prawn :*''Macrobrachium rosenbergii'', also known as the giant river prawn, giant freshwater prawn or cherabin *Any amphipod living in fresh water, especially: :*''Gammarus pulex ''Gammarus pulex'' is a species of amphipod crustacean found in fresh water across much of Europe. It is a greyish animal, growing to long. Description Adult males of ''Gammarus pulex'' may reach a total length of , while females only grow to . ...'' {{Animal common name Former disambiguation pages converted to set index articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresh Water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include non- salty mineral-rich waters such as chalybeate springs. Fresh water may encompass frozen and meltwater in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, snowfields and icebergs, natural precipitations such as rainfall, snowfall, hail/ sleet and graupel, and surface runoffs that form inland bodies of water such as wetlands, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, as well as groundwater contained in aquifers, subterranean rivers and lakes. Fresh water is the water resource that is of the most and immediate use to humans. Water is critical to the survival of all living organisms. Many organisms can thrive on salt water, but the great majority of higher plants and most insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds need fresh water to survive. Fresh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caridea
The Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp or true shrimp, are an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. This infraorder contains all species of true shrimp. They are found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Many other animals with similar names – such as the mud shrimp of Axiidea and the boxer shrimp of Stenopodidea – are not true shrimp, but many have evolved features similar to true shrimp. Biology Carideans are found in every kind of aquatic habitat, with the majority of species being marine. Around a quarter of the described species are found in fresh water, however, including almost all the members of the species-rich family Atyidae and the Palaemonidae subfamily Palaemoninae. They include several commercially important species, such as ''Macrobrachium rosenbergii'', and are found on every continent except Antarctica. The marine species are found at depths to , and from the tropics to the polar regions. In addition to the great variety in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atyidae
Atyidae is a family of shrimp, present in all tropical and most temperate waters of the world. Adults of this family are almost always confined to fresh water. This is the only family in the superfamily Atyoidea. Genera and species The following classification follows De Grave ''et al.'' (2010), with subsequent additions. *'' Antecaridina'' Edmondson, 1954 *'' Archaeatya'' Villalobos, 1959 *''Atya'' Leach, 1816 *'' Atyaephyra'' de Brito Capello, 1867 *'' Atydina'' Cai, 2010 *'' Atyella'' Calman, 1906 *''Atyoida'' Randall, 1840 *''Atyopsis'' Chace, 1983 *'' Australatya'' Chace, 1983 *'' Caridella'' Calman, 1906 *''Caridina'' H. Milne-Edwards, 1837 *'' Caridinides'' Calman, 1926 *'' Caridinopsis'' Bouvier, 1912 *''Delclosia'' Rabadà , 1993 †*'' Dugastella'' Bouvier, 1912 *'' Edoneus'' Holthuis, 1978 *''Elephantis'' Castelin, Marquet & Klotz, 2013 *'' Gallocaris'' Sket & Zakšek, 2009 *''Halocaridina'' Holthuis, 1963 *'' Halocaridinides'' Fujino & Shokita, 1975 *'' Jolivetya'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrobrachium
''Macrobrachium'' is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male. Species It contains these species: *'' Macrobrachium acanthochirus'' F. Villalobos, 1967 *'' Macrobrachium acanthurus'' (Wiegmann, 1836) *'' Macrobrachium acherontium'' Holthuis, 1977 *'' Macrobrachium adscitum'' Riek, 1951 *'' Macrobrachium aemulum'' (Nobili, 1906) *'' Macrobrachium agwi'' Klotz, 2008 *''Macrobrachium ahkowi'' Chong & Khoo, 1987 *'' Macrobrachium altifrons'' (Henderson, 1893) *''Macrobrachium amazonicum'' (Heller, 1862) *'' Macrobrachium americanum'' Spence Bate, 1868 *'' Macrobrachium amplimanus'' Cai & Dai, 1999 *''Macrobrachium andamanicum'' (Tiwari, 1952) *''Macrobrachium aracamuni'' RodrÃguez, 1982 *''Macrobrachium asperulum'' (von Martens, 1868) *''Macrobrachium assamense'' (Tiwari, 1958) *''Macrobrachium atabapense'' S. Pereira, 1986 *''Macrobrachium atactum'' Riek, 1951 *''Macrobrachium auratu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrobrachium Ohione
''Macrobrachium ohione'', commonly known as the Ohio shrimp, Ohio river shrimp or Ohio river prawn, is a species of freshwater shrimp found in rivers throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean drainage basins of North America. It is the best-known of all North American freshwater shrimp, and is commonly used as bait for commercial fishing, especially catfish. Description ''Macrobrachium ohione'' is pale gray with small blue spots and grows up to long. Its first two pairs of legs are clawed, with the second pair larger than the first. The rostrum is curved and contains up to 13 teeth. Distribution The species may be found from North Carolina to Florida on the Atlantic coast of North America, and from the southern tip of Missouri to Louisiana further westward. Despite the common name, the Ohio shrimp is not generally found in the Ohio River anymore. Until the 1930s, it was common in the Ohio River, with the type specimen having been taken at Cannelton, Indiana, and its rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrobrachium Carcinus
''Macrobrachium carcinus'' is a species of fresh water shrimp known as the big claw river shrimp. It is native to streams, rivers and creeks from Florida to southern Brazil. It is the largest known species of Neotropical freshwater prawn, growing up to long and weighing as much as , although even larger specimens have been reported. It is an important species for commercial fishing in the Sao Francisco area, where it is known by the local name of ''pitu''. ''M. carcinus'' is omnivorous, with a diet consisting of molluscs, small fish, algae, leaf litter and insects. ''Macrobrachium carcinus'' has a tan or yellow body with dark brown stripes. Its chelae A chela ()also called a claw, nipper, or pinceris a pincer (biology), pincer-like organ at the end of certain limbs of some arthropods. The name comes from Ancient Greek , through New Latin '. The plural form is chelae. Legs bearing a chela are ... are unusually long and thin, to facilitate foraging for food in small crevices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrobrachium Rosenbergii
''Macrobrachium rosenbergii'', also known as the giant river prawn or giant freshwater prawn, is a commercially important species of Palaemonidae, palaemonid freshwater prawn. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the Indo-Pacific region, from India to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. The giant freshwater prawn has also been introduced to parts of Africa, Thailand, China, Japan, New Zealand, the Americas, and the Caribbean. It is one of the biggest freshwater prawns in the world, and is widely Aquaculture, cultivated in several countries for food. While ''M. rosenbergii'' is considered a freshwater species, the larval stage of the animal depends on brackish water. Once the individual shrimp has grown beyond the planktonic stage and becomes a juvenile, it lives entirely in fresh water. It is also known as the Malaysian prawn, freshwater scampi (India), or cherabin (Australia). Locally, it is known as ''golda chingri'' ( bn, গলদা চিংডঠ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far described. They are mostly marine animals, but are found in almost all aquatic environments. Some 1,900 species live in fresh water, and the order also includes the terrestrial sandhoppers such as ''Talitrus saltator''. Etymology and names The name ''Amphipoda'' comes, via New Latin ', from the Greek roots 'on both/all sides' and 'foot'. This contrasts with the related Isopoda, which have a single kind of thoracic leg. Particularly among anglers, amphipods are known as ''freshwater shrimp'', ''scuds'', or ''sideswimmers''. Description Anatomy The body of an amphipod is divided into 13 segments, which can be grouped into a head, a thorax and an abdomen. The head is fused to the thorax, and bears two pairs of antennae and one pair of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gammarus Pulex
''Gammarus pulex'' is a species of amphipod crustacean found in fresh water across much of Europe. It is a greyish animal, growing to long. Description Adult males of ''Gammarus pulex'' may reach a total length of , while females only grow to . The adults have a robust appearance; they are typically greyish with markings in dark brown or green. Individuals of the genus '' Dendrocometes'' are known to be parasites which reside on the gills of ''G. pulex''. Distribution ''Gammarus pulex'' is found across most of Europe from the Volga drainage in the east to the British Isles in the west. It is absent from Norway, parts of Scotland, and Ireland, although it was introduced to Lough Neagh in the 1950s, where it is replacing the native ''Gammarus duebeni''. Taxonomic history ''Gammarus pulex'' was one of the species included in the 10th edition of Carl Linnaeus' ''Systema Naturae'', which marks the starting point for zoological nomenclature, in 1758. Linnaeus called the species ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
