''Hymenopenaeus doris'' is a species of

prawn Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (which is a member of the order decapoda), some of which can be eaten. The term "prawn"Mortenson, Philip B (2010''This is not a weasel: a close look at nature ...

in the family

Solenoceridae Solenoceridae is a family of decapods The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order (biology), order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, Caridea, s ...

. The species lives in the

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in areas like

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, and

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, from depths of 549 to 4802 meters. The defense mechanism of ''H. doris'' is to play dead in order to avoid predation; drifting motionless while playing dead, having the name "zombie shrimp". This might also be a way of saving energy, since the depth they live at disallows animals to swim rapidly for long periods of time due to the little oxygen.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6493032 Crustaceans of the Pacific Ocean Crustaceans of North America Arthropods of Mexico Invertebrates of Peru Crustaceans described in 1893 Taxa named by Walter Faxon Solenoceridae