Friendly Blade Shrimp

Spirontocaris liljeborgii

• Group: Shrimp

A slender shrimp of cold northern bottoms, the friendly blade shrimp carries a row of toothed ridges along its back that give the blade shrimps their name. It is a small predator that will even feed on close relatives of its own genus.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Thoridae › Spirontocaris

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 107531.