Fascinating Euryrhynchus shrimp

pixl8r

pixl8r

MacroShrimpBreeder
May 11, 2007
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I find this species of shrimp very fascinating. They live in calm, murky, organic laden water. They don't get too large, only an inch or so, but the females have enormous eggs.

Here's a picture from http://www.wirbellose.de and excellent invertebrate resource, but it is in German. Note the size of eggs compared to the shrimp.
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Thats a great picture and this is going to sound very dumb but I never realized that shrimp had those two appendages in front of them (like crabs). There must be a high survival rate for the babies with so few of them being born.

Thank-you for posting that.
 
leighasnana said:
Thats a great picture and this is going to sound very dumb but I never realized that shrimp had those two appendages in front of them (like crabs).
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All shrimp have claws (chela) on the first two sets of limbs. The only exception to this are the filter feeder types, Atyopsis moluccensis (Bamboo/Flower/Wood shrimp) and Atya gabonensis (Vampire shrimp) are the most common types kept in aquariums.

Some types of shrimp, Palaemonid, which include the Macrobrachium and Euryrhynchus groups have large claws, compared to their body size.

leighasnana said:
There must be a high survival rate for the babies with so few of them being born.

Thank-you for posting that.
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That's one theory, they could also reproduce like bunnies! ;)
 
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