Flower Ghost Shrimp

Neotrypaea petalura

• Group: Shrimp

A ghost shrimp of exposed sand and mud flats, it spends almost its whole life out of sight inside burrows it digs in the soft bottom. Most animals reach only a few centimetres, the pale body built for a hidden, burrowing existence.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 1398900.