Cape Mud Shrimp

Upogebia capensis

• Group: Shrimp

A mud shrimp that digs deep U shaped burrows in the sandy mud of estuaries, it lives from mid tide down to the spring low water mark. It fans water through its tunnel and feeds on the detritus that settles inside.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Upogebiidae › Upogebia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 246491.