anchialine snapping shrimp

Metabetaeus lohena

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Alpheidae

Metabetaeus lohena, also known as the alpha snapping shrimp or anchialine snapping shrimp, is a species of alpheid shrimp native to Hawaii and Easter Island. Description Metabetaeus lohena is an alpheid scavenger, which will also hunt small anchialine invertebrates. M.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 3

Sources and credits

DescriptionMetabetaeus lohena, Wikipedia contributors

anchialine snapping shrimp

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