Japanese Ghost Shrimp

Neotrypaea japonica

• Group: Shrimp

A ghost shrimp that digs deep burrows in protected intertidal mudflats, rarely seen above the surface of the soft sediment. Most grow between roughly two and six centimetres long.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Callianassidae › Neotrypaea

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 1398867.